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‘Patience reached limit’: EU warns Facebook to comply with consumer rules by end of 2018
Social media giant Facebook has until December to explain what it does with its users’ personal data and how it shares their information with third parties, a top EU official has warned, saying her goodwill is coming to an end.
Making her point more than clear Thursday, EU Justice and Consumer Commissioner Vera Jourova said: “My patience has reached its limit.”
“While Facebook assured me to finally adapt any remaining misleading terms of services by December, this has been ongoing for too long.”
I want #Facebook to be extremely clear to its users about how their service operates and makes money. Not many people know that #Facebook has made available their data to third parties or that for instance it holds full copyright about any picture or content you put on it.
— Věra Jourová (@VeraJourova) September 20, 2018
The EU accuses Facebook of not providing its users with enough information on how it stores and uses their personal data. The company must be “extremely clear to its users about how their service operates and makes money,” the EU official elaborated.
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