Lawsuit due to use of the Facebook button
The consumer association Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. has issued warnings to various companies for using the official Facebook button ("Like"). Legal action was taken against Peek & Cloppenburg and Payback. The complaint alleges a breach of data protection law because the Facebook plugin is loaded by Facebook every time a page is accessed, Facebook therefore receives the information about the page view and can therefore create a "movement profile". We have already pointed out the possible data protection violation in the consultation and suggested technical alternatives.
Date: 3. Jun 2015