A participant information sheet was also attached which provided further details of the study, including confidentiality and data protection statements.
The implications of enrolling in research studies which requires dealing with complex paper work including informed consent and data protection statements, and the possibility of being assigned to control groups are quite different.
This will reflect the specific requirements of the UK Data Protection Act," said David Smith, Ico deputy commissioner and director of data protection in a statement to the Guardian.
"We believe that the photo tag suggest feature on Facebook is fully compliant with E.U. data protection laws," the statement said.
In a telephone call to President Obama on Wednesday evening, the chancellor noted that a visit to Washington by senior officials from the German government and its intelligence services offered the chance for an "intensive discussion" of concerns over the scope of American intelligence activities, data protection and privacy, the statement said.
"It has to be their decision, whether they want to connect their account with Facebook," Johannes Caspar, the Hamburg data protection commissioner, said in a statement.
In a statement today, data protection commissioner Johannes Caspar ordered Facebook to delete any data it has already harvested from Germany's 35 million WhatsApp users, and to stop collecting more — asserting that Facebook has not obtained permission from WhatsApp users for connecting their accounts.
Its maker, Juergen Mayer, named it "Satellight," and said he and a team of local metalworkers had carved the dish into geometric patterns found in Arabic tiles and wooden screens and in the data protection patterns of his bank statements.
"European citizens care deeply about protecting their privacy and data protection rights," Ms. Reding said in a separate statement.
"We will continue to work together to ensure we remain compliant with European data protection law," Facebook said in a statement.
"We believe that the photo tag suggest feature on Facebook is fully compliant with EU data protection laws," Facebook said in a statement.
