data privacy

Facebook has been under significant pressure from Irish data commission as well as regulators from other parts of European Union. The social network had been repeatedly asked to delete European facial recognition data, citing privacy concerns. Facebook has finally complied with that request.

A number of countries are trying to add more provisions to their laws to enable them a greater control over the flow of data. This is being done on the pretext of security and the data includes both digital as well as non-digital data.