Facebook’s pervasive web presence can be a little creepy at times, but one German state is apparently fed up with Zuckerberg’s shenanigans. Thilo Weichert, head of the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, says that the ‘Like’ button is illegal and sites based in the state must remove it or be fined up to 50,000 Euros.The objection Weichert cites is the data transmission and tracking that Facebook does when users click the Like button. Facebook uses Likes to build profiles of people for use in advertising. Weichert says this practice is illegal because the user is not sufficiently informed of this.
Sites that are found to be using the ubiquitous Like button after the end of September face possible legal action. This only applies to Schleswig-Holstein, but we have to wonder if other regions will follow.
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