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German government bodies urged to remove their Facebook Pages before next year

July 1, 2021

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Germany’s federal information commissioner has run out of patience with Facebook.

Last month, Ulrich Kelber wrote to government agencies “strongly recommend[ing]” they to close down their official Facebook Pages because of ongoing data protection compliance problems and the tech giant’s failure to fix the issue.

In the letter, Kelber warns the government bodies that he intends to start taking enforcement action from January 2022 — essentially giving them a deadline of next year to pull their pages from Facebook.

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