What's in a Name - Facebook's Real Name Policy and User Privacy

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Citation: Shun-Ling Chen (2018) What's in a Name - Facebook's Real Name Policy and User Privacy.
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Provides background on real name policy debate and cases (preceding GDPR) in Germany that agreed with Facebook's claim that data processing took place in Ireland by Facebook Ireland, Ltd., the German Telemedia Act which gives users the right to use a pseudonym was not applicable. However, GDPR may allow German regulators to establish jurisdiction based on the collection of German data subjects. Additionally, collecting real names when a business does not require such collection may violate the GDPR's principle of data minimization, and may be considered a way of collecting users' special categories of data that can be inferred from their real names.