The full text of the complaint is filed here, here and
here you can download the word file (in Greek language).
The complaint was filed in writing and was emailed to
the European Commission Representation in Athens to the email address
comm-rep-athens@ec.europa.eu
Breach of privacy on part of the company “FACEBOOK
Ireland Limited”, with which EU facebook users are counterparties, based in
Ireland's capital, Dublin (Benson Str.), which is a subsidiary company of
"Facebook Ink" based in Menlo Park campus of California State
University, USA.
Violation on part of Ireland or/and Greece by breach
of its/their obligations derived from EU law, and particularly the obligation
to effectively implement the European Council Convention of 1981 and Directive
95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of
personal data, and the Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of data
personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications
sector (Directive on "privacy and electronic Communications").
Failure to adopt and implement effective regulations
and administrative provisions relating to the transfer of these Directives into
domestic law, and to address practices of serious breaches of privacy by the
company "FACEBOOK Ireland Limited" namely, the introduction to the
aforementioned social network of the following functions:
I. The 'Time Stamp' on iPhone's Mobile App, provides
without your consent information to your facebook friends about your last
online facebook connection ('Last Active') when accessing facebook from a
mobile device (sceenshot here).
II. 'Seen' function, in pm correspondance with my
friends on facebook (sceenshot here)
You can find more information about “last active”
(iPhone Facebook Mobile App) and the "seen" function (inbox/platform
independent) here.
The complaint to the European Commission was filed on
12/02/2013, under the reference number CHAP(2013)00241.
