Facebook Changed Everyone's Email to Facebook.com; Here's How to Fix It

Re:Facebook Changed Everyone's Email to Facebook.com; Here's... by DanBC on Monday June 25, 2012 @04:22PM (#4158546)

Do Facebook EU have to conform to EU email handling law now they're an email service provider? Are they conforming to those laws?

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Re:Facebook Changed Everyone's Email to Facebook.com; Here's... by tikhonj on Monday June 25, 2012 @04:30PM (#4158590)

I imagine they have to conform to those laws for their email service. And, given that they're a big company with plenty of lawyers, I have no doubt they are. However, this probably changes nothing about the core product.

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Re:Facebook Changed Everyone's Email to Facebook.com; Here's... by DanBC on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @09:21AM (#4161600)

> And, given that they're a big company with plenty of lawyers, I have no doubt they are

Recent events in the UK make me have less confidence in the law abiding nature of large lawyered corporations. This is especially true with respect to privacy which is complex, often not in the corporation's interest, and poorly regulated.

I'll agree I sound a bit like a paranoid privacy nut here, and that there's nothing to suggest Facebook are doing anything illegal.

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