The German Consumer Organisations states that Facebook's sites default setting s in breach of consumer law.
- “Facebook hides default settings that are not privacy-friendly in its privacy centre and does not provide sufficient information about it when users register,” -Heiko Duenkel, litigation policy officer at the vzvb
- “We are working hard to ensure that our guidelines are clear and easy to understand, and that the services offered by Facebook are in full accordance with the law,” -Facebook
- “The judges ruled that all five of the default settings on Facebook that vzvb complained about are invalid,”
A concern that was made by the consumer rights group was, in the Facebook app for phones, there was the specific problem with a pre-activated service which revealed the user's location to a person they would be chatting to. Also, in the privacy settings, the ticks in which allowed search engines to link to the user's timeline were already ticked, allowing anyone to easily find the user's profile.
The problems, also included, tapping into information users on it's other apps such as Whatsapp and Instagram- as well as having information on it tracks sites used by the user.
For me, this shows how much power big corporations have over their users where they are able to track personal information; location, internet access etc., and with this ability it must be that they would have mush more scrutiny information which they haven't told us as they would reveal what they can.
This would also be why many politician or political parties use Facebook as a means to targeted gain information on their audiences .
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