Twitter and Facebook have said they will not heed the call of British ministers to ban people from their networks or to close their sites if unrest breaks out. However, research by the British newspaper The Guardian later showed that Twitter played only a marginal role in the start of the riots. Twitter was mainly used by outraged citizens to respond to the riots and looting after the event.
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The discussion in Germany about the privacy of Facebook users is of a completely different order. In one part of the country, website operators must remove the Facebook 'like' icon from their site. According to the privacy watchdog in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Facebook is illegally collecting data from website visitors.
A have always been viewed with great critical eye, but the hungary phone number list privacy watchdog Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein is considered one of the strictest advocates of privacy in Europe. According to Thilo Weichert, chairman of the German privacy watchdog, Facebook services are paid for with user data. That is why all websites must remove their 'like buttons'. In its fight against Facebook, Weichert's institute is working together with the national privacy watchdog. Companies and individuals have five weeks to comply with the request, otherwise a fine of up to 50,000 euros threatens.