German State DPA Orders Businesses to Close Facebook Pages : Privacy & Information Security Law Blog On August 19, 2011, the Data Protection Commissioner’s Office of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (“ULD”) ordered<http://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20110819-facebook-en.htm>all businesses in that state “to shut down their fan pages on Facebook and remove social plug-ins such as the ‘like’-button from their websites.” Although this warning is specific to Facebook users, the regulator’s explanation of its motives reveals a fundamental concern about common data analytics practices: http://bit.ly/nGby5J Source: http://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2011/08/articles/online-privacy/german-state-dpa-orders-businesses-to-close-facebook-pages/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+PrivacyInformationSecurityLawBlog+(Privacy+%26+Information+Security+Law+Blog) See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/nGby5J+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]