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Facebook: Your Personal Data is a Trade Secret

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-owns-you? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An Austrian group called Europe versus Facebook has so far made 22 complaints regarding the social network's practices. In the process, the organization has stumbled upon an important tidbit: Facebook says it is not required to give you a copy of some of your personal data if it deems doing so would adversely affect its trade secrets or intellectual property."

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  1. Do not piss off the Austrians. by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They've got little mustachioed corporals and big bodybuilder-looking robots. Even Facebook may be out of its league on this one.

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.