{"id":13848,"date":"2010-07-17T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-17T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T11:17:00","slug":"facebook-privacy-under-fire-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/13848-facebook-privacy-under-fire-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook privacy under fire again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer protection minister Ilse Aigner told German news weekly Focus the company must stop saving personal data about people who are not using the network.<\/p>\n<p>She told the magazine&#8217;s Monday edition, &#8220;It poses me a problem if Facebook&#8217;s profits are partly based on breaching existing laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The minister added that it collects data such as phone numbers saved in its users&#8217; devices, thereby gathering personal information of people who never agreed to share it.<\/p>\n<p>German data protection officials last week launched legal proceedings against Facebook for illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don&#8217;t use the site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German minister has sharply criticized Facebook&#039;s privacy policy and accuses the social networking site of breaching the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}