Actor Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for dumbing down the English language

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Last updated at 1:46 PM on 28th October 2011

It has become the A-lister’s social
media of choice. But not all celebrities are similarly
enamoured with Twitter.

Actor Ralph Fiennes has blamed social networking websites such as Twitter for dumbing down the English  language.

The actor, 48, who does not use Twitter, believes words of more than two syllables are a challenge to some young people.

The
change in modern language inspired him to create his modern-day film
interpretation of Coriolanus, said Fiennes, currently playing Prospero
in The Tempest at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Dumbed down, Actor and director Ralph Fiennes – condemned social media sites such as Twitter for ‘truncating the English language’ – seen her with actress Vanessa Redgrave at the BFI London Film Festival screening of new film Coriolanus

‘We’re in a world of truncated  sentences, soundbites and Twitter,’ he said.

‘[Language] is being eroded — it’s changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us.

‘I hear it, too, from people at drama schools, who say the younger intake find the density of a Shakespeare text a challenge in a way that, perhaps, [students] a few generations ago maybe wouldn’t have.’

The star was speaking after receiving the British Film Institute Fellowship at the BFI London Film Festival awards at LSO St Lukes in Old Street, presented to him by his friend, Irish actor Liam Neeson.

Coriolanus, Fiennes’s film directorial debut, was premiered at the festival last week.

He added: ‘I think we’re living in a time when our ears are attuned to a flattened and truncated sense of our English language, so this always begs the question, is Shakespeare relevant? But I love this language we have and what it can do, and aside from that I think the themes in his plays are always relevant.’

Neeson, who flew in from the US to present the award, said: ‘The BFI has always been special. They got in touch with me and I said I’d love to fly in. It was a nice surprise for him.’

Canadian director David Cronenberg was also awarded the BFI Fellowship. We Need To Talk About Kevin was named best film, while Candese Reid won the best British newcomer award for her portrayal of a young homeless woman in Junkhearts.

Pablo Giorgelli picked up the Sutherland award from Terry Gilliam for his directorial debut Las Acacias, while celebrated director Werner Herzog won best documentary for Into The Abyss.

Other guests at the ceremony included Sam Taylor-Wood and partner Aaron Johnson, and  X-Files star Gillian Anderson.

Meanwhile, Rachel Weisz was ‘gutted’ that filming in New York for The Bourne Legacy, the latest film in the blockbuster franchise, will stop her attending the UK premiere tonight of her film The Deep Blue Sea, which is closing the festival.

The actress, 41, said: ‘I’m a Londoner so I wish I could be there.’

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LeBron takes to Twitter to advertise for a point guard

The Miami Heat could be a point guard away from an NBA title. And LeBron James is using social media to do some recruiting while the lockout lingers.

Via Twitter he mentioned Steve Nash and Jamal Crawford.

Would love to see @JCrossover in a Heat uni! What u guys say?

Maybe @SteveNash in a Heat uni! So we can help each other get our 1st ring

(Thanks to A.L. Ramsey of Los That Sports Blog for tipping us to the tweets)

Article source: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/10/lebron-james-steve-nash-jamal-crawford-lebron-takes-to-twitter-to-advertise-for-a-point-guard/1

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Facebook Immune System checks 25 billion actions every day

The Facebook Immune System (FIS) processes and checks 25 billion actions every day, or 650,000 actions every second. The social networking giant’s cybersecurity system was developed over a three-year period to keep the service’s users safe from spam and cyberattacks. FIS scans every click on Facebook for patterns that could suggest something malicious is spreading across the social network.

Results have shown that it is highly efficient: spam has dropped to account for less than 4 percent of Facebook’s total messages, which affect under 0.5 percent of users. Then again, given that Facebook has 800 million active users, that’s still 4 million users being hit by spam.

FIS works to protect users against spam by harnessing artificially intelligent software to detect suspicious patterns of behavior, according to New Scientist. The system is overseen by a team of 30 security experts, but learns in real-time and regularly takes action without checking with a human supervisor.

Still, it’s not perfect. The system has trouble fighting strategies it has not seen before, such as a socialbot attack. Socialbots randomly send friend requests, which leads to an unusually high number of rejections. FIS is learning to recognize this pattern to block a socialbot attack.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, recently used 102 socialbots to make a combined 3,000 friends in seven weeks. The bots began by sending friend requests to random users, 20 percent of whom accepted, and then to their mutual friends, which resulted in the acceptance rate jumping to almost 60 percent.

Such an attack means it doesn’t matter if users hide their personal information from public view as long as they let their friends have visibility. The social bots thus managed to extract some 46,500 email addresses and 14,500 physical addresses from users’ profiles. “An attacker could do many things with this data,” said Yazan Boshmaf, who will present the team’s work at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference in Orlando, Florida, next month.

See also:

• Facebook partners with Websense to scan URLs for malware
• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: spamming apps are lame
• Sued by Facebook, Spam King surrenders to FBI
• Facebook bans 20,000 accounts daily

Article source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-immune-system-checks-25-billion-actions-every-day/4895

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Nurses discuss ill patients on Facebook, study finds

In 23 cases, medical staff posted confidential medical information on
Facebook, sharing details about a patient’s name, medical condition or
discussing their treatment.

There were more than 90 incidents where employees admitted to inappropriately
accessing the medical files of colleagues, and more than 30 incidents where
they looked up family members, the figures showed.

Their actions led to a total of 102 doctors, nurses and hospital staff being
sacked.

The figures also showed unsecured confidential medical information was lost on
57 occasions across 24 NHS trusts.

Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, warned in July that a
culture change was needed within the health service to ensure patients’
personal information was kept secure.

Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch, said “urgent action” was needed
to keep medical records safe.

“This research highlights how the NHS is simply not doing enough to ensure
confidential patient information is protected,” he added.

“The information held in medical records is of huge personal significance and
for details to be disclosed, maliciously accessed or lost represents serious
infringements on patient privacy.”

He added: “It is essential the NHS is transparent about these incidents and
failing or refusing to disclose that a data breach has taken place is
unacceptable.”

Health Minister Simon Burns said the figures were “completely unacceptable”.

“Patients have a right to expect that their personal medical information is
kept private,” he added.

“We have issued clear standards and guidance to the NHS about what needs to be
done to keep patient records secure and confidential.

“Individual NHS organisations are responsible for ensuring their staff
understand and follow that guidance. Any member of staff discovered
intentionally breaching this should be subject to appropriate disciplinary
action.”

Article source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8854658/Nurses-discuss-ill-patients-on-Facebook-study-finds.html

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Facebook joins the Arctic crowd

Facebook’s artistic sketch of its planned data center in Sweden.

(CNNMoney) NEW YORK — — The northern Scandinavian landscape is dotted with fjords, lingonberries and, if you believe some locals, elves. But another sight is increasingly common on the Arctic horizon: data centers.

Drawn by the promise of lower electricity costs, a growing number of tech companies are harnessing the region’s abundant cold air to cool their servers, cutting expensive air-conditioning out of the equation.

Facebook, the latest tech company to take the polar plunge, announced this week that it will build a data center just south of the Arctic Circle in Lulea, Sweden, where the average low in January is 3 degrees Fahrenheit.

The facility, a set of three 300,000 square foot buildings, is the social networking site’s first data center outside the U.S. It’s scheduled to be operational by 2012.

Lulea’s dry, frigid weather is “definitely is a big part” of the company’s decision to build there, Facebook spokesman Michael Kirkland said. Using outside air to cool servers is “absolutely beneficial not just from an environmental perspective, but also from a cost perspective.”

Analysts agree. There are “overwhelming financial advantages” to building in the far north, according to Rakesh Kumar, an analyst with Gartner.

Utilizing free outside air can result in “tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions [of dollars], of savings per year” for each site, Kumar said.

Data centers are among the most ravenous energy eaters around. They were responsible for about 1.3% of the world’s electricity use in 2010, according to a recent study conducted for the New York Times by Jon Koomey, a consulting professor at Stanford’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

And it usually takes roughly as much electricity to cool the servers as to power them. Conventionally, data centers have been cooled via chillers: heavy-duty air conditioners that pass air across cold pipes.

“For every kilowatt hour of electricity that goes to the server, there’s another almost one kilowatt hour that goes to cooling and fans and pumps,” Koomey said.

Facebook’s Swedish data center will have company from other tech giants in Scandinavia.

In 2009, Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) bought a defunct paper mill in Hamina, Finland, and converted it into a data center that cools the servers it houses via seawater pumped in from the Bay of Finland.

And later this year, British data center developer Verne Global will open on a former Icelandic NATO base a large facility it bills as the first “zero emissions data center.”

Ragnar Horvardarson, a spokesman for the Iceland Chamber of Commerce, said that the Verne Global facility is Iceland’s first data center, but he’s aware of four more in various stages of development.

It’s not just the brisk air that’s luring Silicon Valley to Scandinavia. Relatively abundant renewable energy options make building there attractive. And for an American company like Facebook, housing servers in Europe can cut down the number of milliseconds it takes a Czech Facebook user to “like” a friend’s status.

Conventional incentives like tax breaks may be at work, too, Kumar speculated: “I wonder if this is perhaps more driven by some commercial considerations than perhaps what’s good for the environment.” 

Article source: http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/28/technology/facebook_arctic_data_center/

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Martin to publish book of tweets

28 October 2011
Last updated at 04:55 ET

Martin, who joined Twitter in September 2010, has more than 1.7 million followers

Tweets posted on Twitter by US comedian Steve Martin are to be released in a book, he has announced.

“Due to absolutely no demand, soon I’m publishing a book of my tweets,” he wrote on his Twitter account.

“Many of your replies included! All my profits to charity.”

The book will be released by Grand Central Publishing in June 2012 with the title: “The Ten, Make that Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make that Ten.”

Asked on Twitter why anyone would buy the book when they could just read through his old tweets, he replied: “Because I’ll edit out all the garbage.”

Martin’s recent tweets include, “love to shake hands with the paparazzi when I have a bad cold”, “have just been diagnosed with a borderline personality” and “I thought I should tell you that I am now awake – this is for real fans only”.

Earlier this year, Martin told chat show host David Letterman: “I come on your show and there’s 5 million people watching, I know that at least 3 million have absolutely no interest in what I’m doing.

“But I can be on Twitter, I have about 800,000 followers, and I can actually talk to them directly.”

Martin, 66, the star of films including Roxanne, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, joined Twitter in September 2010 and now has more than 1.7 million followers.

Article source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-15490703

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‘Know your Twitter followers’ launches

‘Know Your Followers’ is open to any Twitter user and has both a free and paid
for version – depending on the level of depth of analysis a person requires
on their followers.

Without paying a fee, any Twitter user can receive a summary analysis of their
following – showing patterns in gender, marital status, profession, likes
and interests amongst a person’s followers.

A full analysis, which will give a more in-depth picture of a person’s or
brand’s Twitter following, costs anywhere from $4.95 to $149.95 depending on
the size of the following and whether the account belongs to an individual
or a company.

“As individuals, we’re naturally curious to discover who follows our tweets.
This new service goes much deeper – to the commercial imperative of brands
and corporations, ad buyers, the media, political campaigners, event
promoters and local merchants to understand their audiences on this
increasingly significant social medium,” explains Paul Hallett, Schmap’s
chief executive.

Article source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8854052/Know-your-Twitter-followers-launches.html

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Chinese Activists Turn To Twitter In Rights Cases

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Blind activist Chen Guangcheng with his wife and son outside their home in northeast China’s Shandong province in 2005. He’s been held incommunicado at his home for more than a year, and has become the focus of a microblog campaign by human rights activists.

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Blind activist Chen Guangcheng with his wife and son outside their home in northeast China’s Shandong province in 2005. He’s been held incommunicado at his home for more than a year, and has become the focus of a microblog campaign by human rights activists.

In China, microblogs are transforming the way activists draw attention to human rights cases. Despite strict Internet controls, netizens are using Chinese Twitter as a powerful tool.

Two recent cases show just how effective microblogs can be in shaping the debate over human rights abuses and driving citizen activism.

One case involves a chilling video that was recently released online. In it, a man lies under a green quilt, apparently naked. His left eye and right ear are covered with bandages; the skin on his feet is discolored and peeling.

“Are you Yang Jinde?” asks a voice. “I’m the lawyer appointed by your family.”

His voice quavering, Yang Jinde describes a litany of torture at Nanyang police dog training center in China’s central Henan province. He said that after his arrest last year, police tried to force him to confess to crimes that he says he did not commit.

“They put people in dogs’ cages, leaving only their heads outside, sticking out from the cage. Then they got police dogs to lick the heads. It’s so scary, people wet their pants,” says Yang.

Yang, 43, says his feet were burned with a cigarette lighter, he was tortured until he was paralyzed, he went blind in one eye and deaf in one ear after being beaten, and he was denied medical care. In the video, he says he was denied food for 12 days, and police shone a bright lamp toward his eyes, preventing him from sleeping.

Enlarge Courtesy Murong Xuecun

Writer Murong Xuecun (second from left) and three friends, including well-known journalist Wang Xiaoshan, on their way to visit lawyer Chen Guangcheng. This picture was retweeted about 7,000 times before it was deleted by censors.

Courtesy Murong Xuecun

Writer Murong Xuecun (second from left) and three friends, including well-known journalist Wang Xiaoshan, on their way to visit lawyer Chen Guangcheng. This picture was retweeted about 7,000 times before it was deleted by censors.

Video Goes Viral

Yang’s troubles began after he had a business dispute with a landlord from whom he was renting a building for his car dealership in Henan. A court ruled against Yang, but he didn’t hand over any money.

The court then removed about 80,000 yuan ($12,500) from his bank account. Yang and his employees staged a protest, which turned violent, in front of the local courthouse and later went to Beijing to petition.

After his return, he was taken to the police dog training center in Nanyang, Henan, where the alleged torture took place. At trial, Yang was found guilty of leading a gang and given 21 1/2 years in prison.

The lawyer who shot the video, Zhu Mingyong, filmed it inside the detention center where Yang is serving his sentence. He says he can’t vouch for Yang’s claims. But he says Yang went into detention able to walk, with full control of his body. And he later saw Yang being carried into the detention room and into trial, unable to walk. The lawyer said he’d never seen such a thing happen before in his years of practice. He shot the video out of desperation.

“Yang’s former lawyer tried reporting his situation to the courts and the relevant departments, but nothing happened,” Zhu told NPR. “We released this publicly, to raise attention from ordinary people and China’s leaders. His situation has been like this for more than a year. I haven’t seen him since the tape was released, but it should have a good effect.”

Yang’s sister, Yang Jinfen, also helped gain attention for the case. On her microblog, she offered herself as a slave to anyone who could help her brother. Later she promised to give her house to anyone who could convict the judge who convicted her brother. She did not want to talk to NPR.

But, propelled by her tweets, the video of her brother has gone viral, with the case covered in state-run media including the Shanghai Daily.

Josh Rosenzweig, an independent researcher on Chinese human rights based in Hong Kong, says this bottom-up pressure is changing the debate.

“Certainly over the past few years there’s been a growing focus on these kinds of abuses by Chinese police, thanks to a more commercialized muckraking Chinese press and the more freewheeling Internet environment,” Rosenzweig says.

Internet Activism Turned Into Action

“Since the rise of the Internet, blogs and Twitter, we the people have our own voice.” Those are the words of Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer, age 39, who has been held mostly incommunicado in his house since being released from prison in September 2010.

Chen had angered local authorities by exposing a campaign of forced abortions. But his prison term of four years and three months had been for “damaging property and organizing a mob to disrupt traffic.”

After being released from prison, he was returned to his own home in Dongshigu village, Linyi, in China’s northwest Shandong province. There, he and his family have had their movements severely restricted and are watched around the clock. He secretly recorded a video recounting these harsh restrictions, which was smuggled out and posted online. In retaliation, he was badly beaten. But he has become the center of a microblog campaign.

A number of prominent intellectuals have recorded videos about Chen, including one by writer Ye Fu, calling the case “the most shameful page of history.” A website has also sprung up calling for people to upload pictures of themselves in dark glasses, as a show of support for the blind lawyer, who always wears sunglasses. And photos are being posted online of guerrilla actions — for example, the hanging of a banner outside the Shandong provincial office in Beijing that declares that the local government is “blackening China’s reputation.”

Visits To A Village

But the actions that have gained the most attention have been visits by groups of Internet users to Dongshigu village, where the blind lawyer lives under the glare of surveillance cameras and plainclothes security agents.

First a trickle and now a stream of people have been making their way there, as if on pilgrimage. At the village, they are turned back forcibly, sometimes bodily transported elsewhere, and often being beaten or robbed en route.

One person who recently made the trip is one of China’s hottest young authors, Murong Xuecun, a 37-year-old whose real name is Hao Qun. It’s estimated that more than 5 million people read his first book, Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu, and he has more than a million followers on Weibo, China’s most popular Twitter-like service.

Murong went to Dongshigu with three friends, but they were forbidden from entering the village. When the author sat down outside the entrance of the village, authorities picked him up and carried him to a bus, which drove the four friends away. When they tried to return, they were attacked.

“One friend was kicked twice in the stomach,” says Murong. “Another was kicked in the leg. This very violent guy knocked me over on the ground. Each of us had small injuries. But they were very gentle to us, compared to what happened to people who went before,” he says.

Such journeys are tweeted, every step of the way. Censors delete most of the tweets, but still the activity raises Chen Guangcheng’s profile.

“I sent one tweet that was retweeted 11,000 times before it was deleted,” says Murong. “I guess that day at least a few million people knew what we were doing.”

In a speech that he was stopped from delivering after winning a Chinese literature prize last year, Murong wrote: “I am not a class enemy, I am not a troublemaker, nor an overthrower of governments. I am just a citizen who makes suggestions.”

He admits he had thought of visiting Chen Guangcheng for a long time but was scared to take the step. When asked why he eventually did so, he says, “What happened to him could happen to anyone. His treatment is my treatment. So visiting him is like visiting myself.”

Twitter Creates New Possibilities

Murong describes Chinese Twitter as a game-changer.

“These past few years on microblogs, I’ve seen lots of people discussing the idea that the nation is not the same as the government. And the idea that being patriotic doesn’t mean loving an imperial court. And that human rights are more important than sovereign rights. So Twitter serves as a tool of China’s enlightenment,” he says.

A couple of nights ago, Netizens got close enough to set off fireworks outside Chen Guangcheng’s house. They recorded it, of course, and put it online.

And the pressure exerted by these citizen activists is having an impact. In the case of the imprisoned businessman, Yang Jinde, a local newspaper reported that he was finally given a medical examination, which reportedly found no grounds for his claims of torture. Lawyer Zhu Mingyong tweeted his response to this, saying, “He [Yang Jinde] was carried into his medical exam, and then he was carried out of it as well. Nanyang police, why can’t you make Yang Jinde stand up?”

Meanwhile, the 6-year-old daughter of lawyer Chen is, for the first time, being allowed to attend school, albeit escorted to and from classes by security agents.

These are small, qualified changes in part of a broader effort to make Yang Jinde and Chen Guangcheng household names in China, as well as overseas.

Article source: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/28/141606687/chinese-activists-turn-to-twitter-in-rights-cases

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Facebook Irish Office Probed by Watchdog Over Personal Data Use

October 27, 2011, 12:14 PM EDT

By Stephanie Bodoni

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc.’s Irish offices became part of an investigation by the national data-protection agency into how the company handles personal data.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner started the on-site portion of the audit by visiting Facebook’s offices in the country this week. The goal of the audit is to check the company’s compliance with Irish and European Union data- protection rules, said Lisa McGann, a spokeswoman for the commissioner.

“The on-site element of the audit has commenced,” said McGann in a telephone interview today, “and takes a number of days in this instance because it’s such a large organization.” The agency plans to complete its investigation before the end of the year, she said.

A group of watchdogs from the EU’s 27 nations have said they will probe possible privacy violations in a feature on Facebook that uses facial-recognition software to suggest people’s names to tag in photos without their permission, Gerard Lommel, a Luxembourg member of the so-called Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, said in June. Norway’s privacy watchdog is also looking into data use at Facebook, which has its European base in Ireland.

“We believe that we are fully compliant with EU data- protection laws and look forward to welcoming the DPA to our EU headquarters in Dublin to demonstrate this,” Facebook said in an e-mailed statement. “The Irish DPA audits several companies each year and we expect the whole process to be complete by January 2012.”

22 Complaints

The Irish audit was planned before the office received 22 complaints related to an Austrian law student’s experience with how the Palo Alto, California-based social-networking service kept storing data users had removed from their pages. Those complaints will now form part of the audit.

The goal is to provide Facebook with recommendations on data handling, McGann said. While the agency doesn’t have the powers to impose fines, if companies don’t comply it can pursue summary proceedings that can result in a maximum fine of 3,000 euros ($4,238). If convicted of serious breaches of data policy, a court may fine a company as much as 100,000 euros.

“The key issue here is that we would not have any expectation of this arising as we fully expect that Facebook will implement any necessary changes as we are receiving full cooperation,” McGann said.

–Editors: Christopher Scinta, Kenneth Wong

To contact the reporter on this story: Stephanie Bodoni in Luxembourg at sbodoni@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Christopher Scinta at cscinta@bloomberg.net

Article source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-27/facebook-irish-office-probed-by-watchdog-over-personal-data-use.html

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Facebook Irish Office Probed by Watchdog Over Personal Data Use

October 27, 2011, 12:14 PM EDT

By Stephanie Bodoni

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc.’s Irish offices became part of an investigation by the national data-protection agency into how the company handles personal data.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner started the on-site portion of the audit by visiting Facebook’s offices in the country this week. The goal of the audit is to check the company’s compliance with Irish and European Union data- protection rules, said Lisa McGann, a spokeswoman for the commissioner.

“The on-site element of the audit has commenced,” said McGann in a telephone interview today, “and takes a number of days in this instance because it’s such a large organization.” The agency plans to complete its investigation before the end of the year, she said.

A group of watchdogs from the EU’s 27 nations have said they will probe possible privacy violations in a feature on Facebook that uses facial-recognition software to suggest people’s names to tag in photos without their permission, Gerard Lommel, a Luxembourg member of the so-called Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, said in June. Norway’s privacy watchdog is also looking into data use at Facebook, which has its European base in Ireland.

“We believe that we are fully compliant with EU data- protection laws and look forward to welcoming the DPA to our EU headquarters in Dublin to demonstrate this,” Facebook said in an e-mailed statement. “The Irish DPA audits several companies each year and we expect the whole process to be complete by January 2012.”

22 Complaints

The Irish audit was planned before the office received 22 complaints related to an Austrian law student’s experience with how the Palo Alto, California-based social-networking service kept storing data users had removed from their pages. Those complaints will now form part of the audit.

The goal is to provide Facebook with recommendations on data handling, McGann said. While the agency doesn’t have the powers to impose fines, if companies don’t comply it can pursue summary proceedings that can result in a maximum fine of 3,000 euros ($4,238). If convicted of serious breaches of data policy, a court may fine a company as much as 100,000 euros.

“The key issue here is that we would not have any expectation of this arising as we fully expect that Facebook will implement any necessary changes as we are receiving full cooperation,” McGann said.

–Editors: Christopher Scinta, Kenneth Wong

To contact the reporter on this story: Stephanie Bodoni in Luxembourg at sbodoni@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Christopher Scinta at cscinta@bloomberg.net

Article source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-27/facebook-irish-office-probed-by-watchdog-over-personal-data-use.html

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