EU Wants Tighter Privacy on Social Networks.
Are social networks such as Facebook and MySpace doing enough to protect their users’ privacy? A panel of European regulators has laid out operating guidelines for social networks, which will ensure their compliance with strict online privacy laws in the European Union.
According to the guidelines, social networks must set security settings to high by default; they must allow users to limit data disclosed to third parties, and they must limit the use of sensitive information (race, religion, political views) in behavioral advertising.
These latest guidelines from the European Union will definitely make life harder for social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, but will most likely have a positive impact on user privacy in the long run.
You can read the entire set of guidelines created by the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party here.
