The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has published its review of Facebook Ireland compliance with Irish Data Protection laws.

The report examined the implementation of a range of recommendations.

It follows an audit of the Irish operations of the company last year.

It says the great majority of the proposals have been fully introduced.

These include better transparency and user control over settings.

However the review by the Data Protection Commissioner says the process to ensure the deletion of an account beyond all doubt has yet to be implemented.

The 74-page report says the formal response by the company to its recommendations demonstrates “the constructive approach adopted by the company”.

It adds that in some cases – referring to the ‘tag suggest’ feature – Facebook has gone beyond the initial recommendations of the report.

It also notes that in a small number of cases full implementation has not been achieved, but “is planned to be achieved by a specified deadline”.

The document expresses some concern in the areas of new user education, deletion of social plug-in impression data for EU users, fully verified account deletion beyond all doubt and minimising the potential for ad targeting based on words and terms that could be considered to be sensitive personal data.

Read the report in full href="http://dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Review_Report_21_Sept_2012.pdf"> here

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