Facebook has been in the attention of the European Union for some time, but also of their authorities, for the way in which it conducts its business on the European continent. Because Facebook is not exactly the most "decent" company in the world, the EU thought of putting even more pressure on the American giant, and now it is considering the terms and conditions that the social network imposes on its users.
Facebook does not respect European legislation in the terms and conditions of use of the social network that it imposes on users who use its platform. The European authorities asked the Facebook company since June to modify its terms and conditions of use for the social network by the end of September, those from Twitter and Google also being targeted.
Facebook is threatened by the European authorities with serious fines if it does not modify its terms and conditions of use of the social network to comply with European legislation. The amount of fines was not mentioned by the European authorities, but probably Facebook will have to pay tens of millions of dollars for non-compliance with European regulations.
Facebook – EU Threatens the Company with Fines
Facebook is targeted by the European Union mainly because of the way in which the company specifies in the terms and conditions of use the arbitrary way in which it can delete content from the social network. Those at Facebook can delete anything and whenever they want from their social network, but they mainly focus on illegal content published by users, but the EU wants users to have more rights.
Facebook had until July 20 to send a revised version of the terms and conditions of use for the social network to the European Union. Facebook first made a proposal for changes in March, which was rejected by the European Union, so now the authorities are putting pressure on the company to speed up its modification process, or bear the related fines.
"European Union authorities have increased pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter to amend their user terms to bring them in line with EU law after proposals submitted by the tech giants were considered insufficient."
Facebook is obliged to have a team in Europe with which Europeans can discuss the deletion of content from the social network, now they have to address the team in California. We are talking about a series of changes that bring us more power in the relationship with Facebook, and the European authorities act very correctly when they demand such changes from the American company.
Facebook has a considerable percentage of active users globally in Europe, so it cannot risk having the social network blocked on the continent.