(SMH) Max’s privacy war brings Facebook to heel

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Max Schrems wasn't sure what he would get when he asked Facebook to send him a record of his personal data from three years of using the site.

What the 24-year-old Austrian law student didn't expect, though, was 1222 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.

Time for an "aha" moment.

Read it all.

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Posted October 27, 2011 at 6:45 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Ad Orientem wrote:

Thanks for posting this.  It confirms my resolve to stay the (bleep) away from Facebook.  I keep getting people telling me I should sign up.  No thanks, I will pass.

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