Find what Facebook knows you - here is how to do it
How to find out everything that Facebook *really* knows about you.... Max Schrems, a 24-year-old law student from Vienna, a meticulous document requester and researcher, is now sitting on a pile of 1,200 pages that comprise his personal-data Facebook dossier. He secured the data by using a European requirement that entities with data about individuals make it available to those individuals if they request it. After Mr. Schrems made the request, Facebook handed over a CD containing data that's now fueling 22 complaints that the law student has filed against Facebook with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (according to Facebook, European users have a relationship with the Irish Facebook subsidiary). The complaints, which Mr. Schrems began to file in August, concern the illegality of these charges (for the full set and PDFs of the filed complaints, go to Kim Cameron?s Identity Weblog): * Pokes: Retained even after a user removes...