Welcome to Dr. Widmer & Partners, attorneys-at-law, Berne/Switzerland. We are a law firm active exclusively, both nationally and internationally, in the fields of IT, Internet, E-Business and Telecommunications (ICT) law. For over 25 years, we have provided professional legal services in these areas to national and international clients, including both providers and users of information and telecommunication technologies. Together with our clients, we elaborate solutions that will minimize the legal risks of their business transactions and, by doing so, contribute to our clients' economic success.

Facebook changed its privacy settings at the end of last year. The new settings give users greater choice in differentiating between which data to make publicly accessible, and which should be visible only to a restricted circle. However, many users fail to make use of this facility, so the default settings of the platform are then applicable. These have also been changed by Facebook. With the new default settings, more personal data than before (such as friend lists, profile photos or address) are publicly available for anyone to see. In order to prevent this, Facebook users must either manually alter the default settings or delete their profile details. Facebook did not obtain the consent of its users for the new default settings, and also failed to notify them beforehand.