German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has written an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, expressing her concerns about Facebook’s plans to further relax data protection regulations on the social networking site. “Should Facebook not be willing to alter its business policy and eliminate the glaring shortcomings, I will feel obliged to terminate my membership,” writes Aigner, acknowledging thus the low level of influence of political leaders to impose their point of view to American editors.
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Shirt without tie and wide smile, the new portrait of President
Sarkozy on Facebook is deliberately cool and relaxed. According to
Franck Louvrier, the President's adviser, we have "to adapt
the page to the support". Besides official news,
we learn that the President's favorite book is "Red and Black" by
Stendhal. To celebrate this new version of the official page of the
President, the Elysée publish a video filmed by the weekly magazine
"Femme Actuelle" during an interview with Carla Bruni Sarkozy in the
Elysee salons.
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For the first time, reacting to rumors began to circulate, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, France's minister for the digital economy has confirmed her pregnancy via Facebook. "They call me to talk to me a picture, she write. Indeed, some Facebook friends spoken too. Well, I do not know how the photographer has managed, I thought the jacket covering more than that, but it is true that it is quite telling, that photo. "So, it's true, I'm pregnant," wrote the 35-year-old minister on her Facebook profile. "My husband and I are very happy. I will give birth this summer".
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The social network Facebook is growing very quicky. Approximately 7 million French (almost 20% of Internet users in France) are registered according to Marketing 2.0 and Sociabliz Demographer. But we are more than 150 million worldwide, including 45 million in the USA, to share on Facebook. No wonder that politicians are increasingly likely to join. But, according to a recent article in The New York Times, it takes time to learn and adapt to be truly effective. If, for example, most political operations know it’s not O.K. to phone people during dinner, the rules for online engagement are yet to be established.
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According to PoliticsOnline, young
Egyptians are flocking to Facebook to mobilize and vent their frustrations with
the Gaza-Israeli conflict. This showing of "Facebook Activism" can be expected to occur with a
government that limits their right to assemble and their freedom of
speech.Accessing Facebook through private homes or Internet cafes, Egyptian
youths have found an outlet for their angst and anxiety over Gaza through the
online social networking site.
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