"This requires storing a comprehensive database of the biometric features of all users," the organisation wrote. "Facebook has introduced this feature in Europe, without informing the user and without obtaining the required consent. Unequivocal consent of the parties is required by both European and national data protection law."In other news:
Facebook to make all sharing privacy settings 'opt-in' (ZDNet)
The settlement would require the world’s largest social network, with over 800 million users worldwide, to “express affirmative consent” if it makes “material retroactive changes”, the Wall Street Journal reports. The settlement dates back to an FTC investigation to December 2009, when Facebook radically changed its privacy settings. The changes, at the time, made parts of users’ Facebook pages, such as profile picture and other personal information from birthdays to friends’ lists public.
