Nordic Countries ask Facebook about privacy law

Norway has a longish tradition of questioning whether Facebook is in compliance with national integrity legislation. Way back in December 2009 I wrote (in Swedish) about the Norwegian Consumer Agencies early attempts to analyze Facebook’s relationship to privacy legislation. I was subsequently quoted on a t-shirt by the consumer agency!

Now the Data Protection Agencies of the Nordic countries have put together a list of questions to Facebook. The questions deal with the way in which the company complies with integrity legislation. The questions were sent from the Norwegian Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) but the questions are a collaboration from the agencies of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland and Åland. Read the questions sent to Facebook.

There is also an interesting background report from the Datatilsynet: Social Network Services and Privacy: A case study of Facebook by Atle Årnes, Jørgen Skorstad and Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen (15.04.2011). There is also the press release from Datatilsynet (in Norwegian).

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