UFC-Que Choisir French
consumers group
Consumer organizations are advocacy groups that seek to protect people from corporate abuse like unsafe products, predatory lending, false advertising, astroturfing and pollution.
Consumer Organizations may operate via protests, litigation, camp ...
with 160 domestic local groups.
UFC-Que Choisir defends the rights of consumers in
litigation against corporations, and pushes for public policies reinforcing the rights of consumers.
It publishes a magazine called ''Que Choisir'' ("What to Choose").
Data privacy
It filed a lawsuit in France's
Tribunal de Grande Instance
A tribunal, generally, is any person or institution with authority to judge, adjudicate on, or determine claims or disputes—whether or not it is called a tribunal in its title.
For example, an advocate who appears before a court with a si ...
against
Facebook
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,
Google
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, and
Twitter
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for "abusive" and "illegal" practices regarding
data privacy
Information privacy is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information norms, and the legal and political issues surrounding them. It is also known as data pr ...
and their failure to modify their privacy policies and terms of service despite repeated warnings and months of negotiations. They faulted the terms of services for being "incomprehensible, illegible, filled with
hyperlinks...and sometimes referring to pages in
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
". Their statement accused the companies of shirking responsibility: "If the
social media
Social media are interactive media technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the definition of ''social medi ...
networks are particularly greedy in terms of data, they are dieting when it comes to responsibility".
References
Consumer organizations in France
Members of Consumers International
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