Yesterday, Facebook reached an agreement with German data protection officials in order to end a dispute over the social networking site's "Friend Finder" application. Hamburg's Data Protection Authority received complaints about the feature, which allows Facebook to send unsolicited email invitations to non-members through current members' address books. The agreement comes as a response to legal proceedings launched by German officials last year against Facebook for accessing and saving the private data of non-members without their permission. For more information, see this article from the Globe and Mail.
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