Facebook Largely Meets Data Protection Goals of 2011 Audit, Ireland DPA Reports

Sept. 24, 2012, 4:00 AM UTC

Facebook Ireland (FB-I) has largely complied with promises to adopt a range of data protection best practices made in response to a major 2011 audit by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) of Ireland, the data protection authority concluded in a re-audit report released Sept. 21.

FB-I processes data from worldwide locations other than the United States and Canada for the social media giant.

The original FB-I audit report, which was released in December 2011 (246 PRA, 12/22/11), recommended, among other things, that FB-I make changes in how it collects user data through cookies and ...

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