Fines for face recognition service?

The strange woman at the next table? Just get on it keep up with the
camera phone and can check on Facebook, as the hot well. Or so look
horrific visions that plague so far, especially privacy advocates.

What social networks are actually doing with all the personal
information that we give them voluntarily or involuntarily? Does
deleted truly deleted - or just somewhere pushed towards?

Even Voßkuhle Andreas, president of the Federal Constitutional Court,
has recently been thinking aloud, that the highest German court could
deal with it soon, "the meaning and scope of fundamental rights in a
world of digital networking to identify new".

Networking opportunity of equal access to information, new
possibilities to deal with the world, are one thing. At the same time
sees Voßkuhle surfing on Internet social networking sites, given the
mania for collecting data from companies like Facebook but as
"risk-inclined activities": Here is not paid with money but with some
very sensitive personal information.

In summer, Hamburg data protection Johann Caspar has created with
Facebook. The reason: Even in Germany the company has activated the
automatic face recognition, a service of the end of 2010 was launched
in the U.S.. Caspar's accusation: his network users have neither asked
nor informed consent to use their data. And so it goes: If Facebook
users to upload a photo of her side and provided with information
("This is Thomas from the Frankfurter Strasse") may, Facebook using
biometric image recognition programs recognize Thomas on other photos.
This linking of data from a growing database is only offered Facebook
friends of Thomas. But this need not remain so.

Therefore also calls on Caspar Facebook, to comply with German and EU
data protection law. Users should be asked for a yes to the active use
of facial recognition software. Not only the new ones, but also every
20 million years old German Facebook users. For months, Hamburg data
protection has been negotiating with the managers of the network. No
result - now threatens to fine and Caspar injunction.

The EU also wants social networks deal with personal data no longer
quite so freely: Complete records of users to the advertising industry
to give - anonymously, such as Facebook insists - after plans should
be permitted only with the consent of those affected.