German officials are reported to have filed legal proceedings against Facebook concerning its accessing and saving of the personal information of people who do not use the site without any permission, alleging that it is being used for marketing purposes.

However, this is not the first time the widely known social networking giant has been trashed into the troubling waters by data protection officials.

Facebook is cited to be imposed with fines of worth tens of thousands of euros as per the privacy laws.

The social networking firm has extended a confirmation regarding being given a letter about the action.

Johannes Caspar, head of Hamburg's Data Protection Authority, quoted, "We consider the saving of data from third parties, in this context, to be against data privacy laws”.

He added that he had been inundated with complaints from users who don’t have a profile on Facebook, however, there details had been introduced on the site by friends.

According to recent data, the social networking giant witnessed some 320,000 new users in June, as compared to the almost 8 million new members (7.8 million) it captured in its web in May.

Facebook has been given a time until 11 August to give its formal reply concerning the legal complaint filed against it.