Privacy activist group Europe-v-Facebook has received responses from Facebook to complaints about the company’s privacy policy, but the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said the group was barred from releasing them, Computerworld reports. According to the group’s website today, however, the DPC has clarified its decision and will allow the group to publish the 200-page response. The group originally filed the complaints with Facebook two years ago, claiming the social network’s privacy policies violate European data protection law. “After two years of constant battling, we finally received the ‘counterarguments’ by Facebook,” wrote Europe-v-Facebook, which now has until October 17 to comment on Facebook’s responses. The DPC will circulate a draft of its decision in the case prior to publishing its final decision.
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