<p>Consumer protection minister Ilse Aigner told German news weekly 'Focus' the company must stop saving personal data about people who are not using the network.<br /><br />She told the magazine's Monday edition, "It poses me a problem if Facebook's profits are partly based on breaching existing laws."<br /><br />The minister added that it collects data such as phone numbers saved in its users' devices, thereby gathering personal information of people who never agreed to share it.<br /><br />German data protection officials last week launched legal proceedings against Facebook for illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don't use the site.<br /></p>
<p>Consumer protection minister Ilse Aigner told German news weekly 'Focus' the company must stop saving personal data about people who are not using the network.<br /><br />She told the magazine's Monday edition, "It poses me a problem if Facebook's profits are partly based on breaching existing laws."<br /><br />The minister added that it collects data such as phone numbers saved in its users' devices, thereby gathering personal information of people who never agreed to share it.<br /><br />German data protection officials last week launched legal proceedings against Facebook for illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don't use the site.<br /></p>