Facebook on CD
"Dear Facebook, can I have all my personal data on CD please?"
Why, yes you can:
What [Max Schrems] the 24-year-old Austrian law student didn't expect, though, was 1,222 pages of data on a CD. It included chats he had deleted more than a year ago, "pokes" dating back to 2008, invitations to which he had never responded, let alone attended, and hundreds of other details.
Receiving a CD from Facebook is perhaps a story in itself, but clearly the big issue here is the amount of information that Facebook has retained, including supposedly deleted information.
As a result, Schrems has launched Europe v Facebook as a campaign site, designed to hold FB to its privacy promises - at least in the EU.
We'll be keeping tabs on both sides in coming months.
Original article. (ht @robin1966)
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