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Facebook's chief says privacy is over, but the EU says otherwise (Photo: Tom Rydquist)

New EU laws to target Facebook

Two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of social networking site Facebook, told the world to just get over it - no one cares about privacy anymore, provoking a storm of protest across cyberspace.

On Thursday (28 January), the European Commission responded to the 24-year-old billionaire and announced plans for comprehensive new laws that have in their sights the massively popular website.

The commission is concerned that its existing rules on data protection date back to 1995,...

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Facebook's chief says privacy is over, but the EU says otherwise (Photo: Tom Rydquist)

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