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France: Facebook has 60 days to change its terms and conditions says Directorate-General for Competition

By  |  February 10, 2016

France’s Directorate-General for Competition, Consumers and Fraud Prevention has audited the social network’s terms of use and concluded that they contain unfair contract terms illegal under French law.

With its 60-day deadline, the DGCCRF jumps to the head of the line for Facebook’s lawyers’ attention: On Monday night the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty gave the company 90 days to stop some transfers of its users’ personal information to the U.S., and to change the way it handles the data of visitors its website.

The DGCCRF defines contract terms as unfair when they create a significant imbalance, to the detriment of the consumer, in the rights and obligations of the parties to a contract.

The directorate examined the terms of use set by Facebook Ireland and Facebook Payments International, the two companies responsible for Facebook users outside North America.

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