Data protection : Facebook in hot seat

Facebook seems to be caught in an ever-tighter grip. Six national data protection authorities have set up a contact group to coordinate their investigations into the American group's practices. An initial informal report will be presented on 14 and 15 April at the next meeting of the group of European data protection authorities (Article 29 group or G29). The contact group, launched in early 2015 by the Netherlands, also includes Belgium, France, Spain, Italy and Germany. "For the moment, the…