In September 2012 the Irish Data Protection Commissioner
published its Report of Re-Audit in relation to the data management
practices of Facebook Ireland Limited ("FB-I"). This was
a follow-on from the Report of Audit of FB-I published by the
Commissioner in December 2011. Both reports built on the work
already carried out by the American, Canadian and German data
protection regulators.
Report of Audit
The audit was carried out between October and December 2011
pursuant to the Irish Data Protection Act, 1988 (as amended) (the
"Act"). FB-I is the company responsible most of the
Facebook group's social networking activities with consumers
outside of North America. The Commissioner reviewed in some detail
the compliance with the Act of various features on the Facebook
website including facial recognition technology for the
"tagging" of individuals, the use of social plug-ins (the
Facebook "like" button), the "Friends Finder"
feature and the Third Party Applications
