Morocco’s Data Protection Agency Demands Answers from Facebook over User Privacy

The officials of the National Commission for the Control of Personal Data Protection (CNDP) do not approve of Facebook’s behavior.

Indeed, in a press release published by MAP, the CNDP has expressly asked the social network to respond to its concerns about the personal data of Moroccan Internet users.

According to the press release, the Commission’s aim is to ensure that the data centers hosting the personal data, both those collected from them with their consent and those generated by their uses, are located in countries respecting the protection of personal data.

It is also a question of the processing of complaints received by the CNDP, relating to invasion of privacy, image, ethics, identity theft, the right to be forgotten, geolocation and profiling by the social networks of the Facebook company, being the subject of a mechanism to be defined.

The other equally pressing demand of the CNDP is the immediate implementation of a "Data protection authority casework" mechanism, which must provide specialized assistance to the authorities responsible for data protection.

What distresses the CNDP is Facebook’s slowness in meeting its grievances, expressed since April 11, when "it was agreed to organize regular monitoring of the processing of requests," it laments.

This silence remains current despite the CNDP’s follow-up on September 17, addressed to Facebook’s representative in Dakar, on the requests concerning the protection of the personal data of Moroccans, the press release specifies.

The CNDP also condemns this nonchalance of Facebook, which nevertheless never ceases to develop its actions and partnerships in Morocco.