In November 2011, a German data protection commissioners office ordered companies to shut down their Facebook fan pages or pay fines of up to 50,000 ($67,800) That earlier ruling was reversed on Wednesday. The ruling allows companies to keep the fan pages without violating German privacy laws. That may let fan page owners off the hook, but it leaves wider questions around privacy issues up in the air, such as whether Facebook itself is or is not violating privacy with its data collection practices.”]