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The National Court in Germany ruled that Facebook will have to withdraw from your page the “find friends”, after the panel of the Federal Court declared as illegal harassment that promotes this service .
Germany eliminates feature Facebook for violating privacy. Photo: EFE
Mexico City, January 16 (HOWEVER) .- The National Court in Germany ruled that Facebook will have to withdraw from your page the “find friends”, then the panel of the Federal Court declared as illegal harassment that promotes this service.
The reason, explains the German Federation of Consumer Organizations, is that the network access user contacts You have saved in your email and send invitations to contacts that appear not registered, which represents an intrusive form of marketing.
Facebook feature that invites users to grant permission to access contacts never properly informed their users about how they were using the data, which the court found that Facebook violated German data protection laws, in addition to falling into unfair trade practices.
In response, the German Federation noted that “Facebook invitations via email to people who have not given their consent previously clear, are an unacceptable nuisance”.
In 2012 and 2014 two lower courts and had accused Facebook of the same crimes, so it was no surprise the decision by the highest court.
A spokesman for the social network in Germany said in a statement that expect to receive the decision Formal to assess any impact on their services.
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