Commentary


July 1, 2009 | Posted by John K. Roche
On June 12, 2009 the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party adopted an opinion regarding its expectations for operators, application providers and users of social networking services – including those based outside the EU – to meet the requirements of EU data protection law.  See WP 163, “Opinion 5/2009 on online social networking.”
June 11, 2009 | Posted by Lisa T. Oratz
Beginning June 13, 2009, at 12:01 a.m. EDT (June 12, 2009, at 9:01 p.m. PDT), Facebook will allow current members to select a username that will be associated with their personal profile or their Facebook Page (which is a profile page for a business, brand or public figure).  The selected username will appear at the end of the facebook.com URL in the location bar of the browser window in place of the current randomly assigned numerical reference.  An example of the use of a username would be: www.facebook.com/perkinscoie.