It is not clear whether the decision has implications for Facebook users outside Hamburg.
is in the terms of use of Facebook that people should use their own name. ” This way, everybody always knows who they make contact. So you can help us keep the community safe, ” is in the rules. When in doubt, Facebook may suspend an account and ask the user for credentials.
A German USER had gone to the regulator when it had happened to her. They used a different name because they wanted to get messages about her work on her private-account. The regulator has now given her the same.
Ireland
Facebook says it is registered in Ireland and therefore subject to Irish regulations. That argument, the site also used when the Dutch watchdog, the Data Protection Board (CBP) began an investigation.
But according to the Hamburg privacy watchdog that’s not right. ” Anyone who stands in our field to play our game. Changing the user name is a flagrant violation of users’ rights, ” said supervisor Johannes Caspar.
Transvestites
Facebook introduced the rule to the real name to be used last year. Since then there has been much criticism. Proved so many profiles of transvestites to be turned away.
The British Jemma Rogers had even changed her name at the registry office in Jemmaroid Von Laalaa. Under the fancy name they had created a profile in 2008, Facebook had therefore kept her
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