Social networking giants are subject to EU data protection laws, say regulators

Social networking sites are legally responsible for their users' privacy, Europe's privacy watchdogs have confirmed. A committee of data protection regulators has said that the sites are 'data controllers', with all the legal obligations that brings.Users of the sites are also data controllers with legal obligations when they are posting on behalf of a club, society or company, the opinion said.The committee of Europe's data protection regulators, the Article 29 Working...