Les régulateurs européens viennent de joindre leurs voix à celles d’autres régulateurs et avec la société civile, ils s’inquiètent des changements qu’ils qualifient d’inacceptables. Le régulateur canadien http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2010/nr-c_100127_e.cfm
a été le premier à réagir, puis Viviane Redin, le 11 février Journée internationale de l’Internet sûr.(cf. Nea say).
Le G29 qui rassemble tous les régulateurs nationaux de l’UE vient d’envoyer une lettre sans équivoque à 20 opérateurs de réseaux sociaux qui ont signé la Charte « Safer Networking Principles for the EU ». Le consentement donné doit être libre et non ambiguë.
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The Article 29 Working Party, the group of European data protection authorities,
told Facebook in a letter today that it is unacceptable that the company fundamentally changed the default settings on its social-networking platform to
the detriment of a user.
Facebook made the change only days after the company and other social
networking sites providers participated at a hearing during the Article 29 Working
Party’s plenary meeting in November 2009.
The Article 29 Working Party, which held its 75th plenary session in Brussels on
May 10 and 11, 2010, sent letters to 20 social network operators that have
signed the “Safer Networking Principles for the EU.”
The Working Party emphasised the need for a default setting in which access to
the profile information and information about the connections of a user is limited
to self-selected contacts. Any further access, such as by search engines, should
be an explicit choice of the user.
The letters are a follow-up to the Opinion on Online Social Networking of June
2009 and a subsequent hearing with three major social network services
operators at the Article 29 Working Party plenary meeting in November 2009.
The letters also address the issue of third-party applications Providers of social
network services should grant users a maximum of control about which profile
data can be accessed by a third party application on a case-by-case basis. The
Article 29 Working Party also raised the issue of data of third persons contained
in users’ profiles. Providers of social networking sites should be aware that it
would be a breach of data protection law if they use personal data of other
individuals contained in a user profile for commercial purposes if these other
individuals have not given their free and unambiguous consent.
In addition, the Article 29 Working Party met with representatives from the
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). The groups
exchange views on the mutual roles that they can play on reviewing the OECD
Privacy Guidelines and on international cooperation in the field of enforcement.
Background information
Site de la Commission européenne sur la protection des données art.29 Protection des données http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/workinggroup/index_en.htm