<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5c536049-3bc3-4e9a-b7c2-c9c02423042e/A9A8AD6B-9429-4923-A957-C2FDDB50B5A2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mashable.com/2009/06/24/eu-privacy-social-networks/" href="http://mashable.com/2009/06/24/eu-privacy-social-networks/" style="font-size: 11px;">mashable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/06/24/eu-privacy-social-networks/"><P><IMG class="alignright size-full wp-image-36592" title="eu" alt="" src="http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/eu.jpg" />Are social networks such as <SPAN class="blippr-nobr">Facebook<SPAN class="blippr-nobr"><A class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-05" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336650-Facebook.whtml" target="_blank" href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336650-Facebook"><SPAN>Facebook</SPAN><IMG alt="Facebook" src="http://static1.blippr.com/images/inline-face_05.png?1237798206" class="wp-smiley" /></A></SPAN></SPAN> and <SPAN class="blippr-nobr">MySpace<SPAN class="blippr-nobr"><A class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-03" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336652-MySpace.whtml" target="_blank" href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336652-MySpace"><SPAN>MySpace</SPAN><IMG alt="MySpace" src="http://static1.blippr.com/images/inline-face_03.png?1237798206" class="wp-smiley" /></A></SPAN></SPAN> doing enough to protect their users’ privacy? In the European Union, they might need to do more. A panel of European regulators has laid out operating guidelines for social networks, which will ensure their compliance with strict – albeit sometimes vague – online privacy laws in the European Union. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/06/24/eu-privacy-social-networks/"><P>These laws mostly stem from the <A href="http://www.cdt.org/privacy/eudirective/EU_Directive_.html">European Union Directive on Data Protection of 1995</A>, which, among other regulations, prohibits collection of personal information without consumers’ permission, forbids employers to read workers’ private e-mail, and doesn’t allow companies to share personal information on users without their permission. <SPAN id="more-129075"></SPAN> However, according to data-privacy lawyer Jan Dhont at Lorenz in Brussels, these<A target="_blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124579287313043695.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"> regulations aren’t always very clear</A>. For example, the companies that collect personal information must use it for “legitimate purposes,” which can be interpreted in many different ways. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A9A8AD6B-9429-4923-A957-C2FDDB50B5A2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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