UFC-Que Choisir French
consumers group with 160 domestic local groups.
UFC-Que Choisir defends the rights of consumers in
litigation
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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,
Google, and
Twitter for "abusive" and "illegal" practices regarding
data privacy 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
hyperlink
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s...and sometimes referring to pages in
English". Their statement accused the companies of shirking responsibility: "If the
social media 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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