One of the German state  blocking the ‘like’  Facebook button, that is symbolized by the image thumb. What lies behind the blocking of these?

With the ‘like’ button, Facebook breach data protection laws in Germany. Consequently, Germany gave the order to all existing sites in the state of Schleswig-Holstein to abolish the ‘like’ from their Facebook page.

The site owners were given until September 30 deadline for removal. “All institutions in Schleswig-Holstein have to shut their Facebook fan page and remove the plug-in social as the ‘like’ from its website,” the official statement from the German Data Protection Commissioner.

Said by German authorities, Facebook has been gathering information from users who obtained the data on the ‘like’ Button and this is considered to violate the rules. On the other hand, Facebook says that the ‘like’ only collect the IP addresses of the non-users and this information will be deleted after 90 days.

The issue of privacy is not the first time whipping up, especially in Germany which has more stringent rules than the Americans. Previously, Facebook also received pressure from the German authorities in Hamburg to abolish the face recognition feature.

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