The Land’s authority for regulating data protection informed in December that the German law gave users the right to use pseudonyms online, The Guardian article reads.
The Schleswig-Holstein Commissioner for Data Protection, Thilo Weichert, argued that the current rules of Facebook, which required users to identify themselves, violated German law.
"We cannot accept that a portal such as Facebook violate German data protection law, without opposition and without the prospect of a cessation of the situation" Weichert stated in letters addressed to Zuckerberg in California and to Facebook Ireland Ltd in Dublin
Facebook representatives stated they would appeal in court against the decision.
According to experts in the field, it is unlikely that Facebook comply with the latest application for compliance with the law in Germany
Mark Zuckerberg owns a fortune assessed by Forbes at around 14 billion dollars.