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24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200 PDFs

Posted by Soulskill on from the ask-and-ye-shall-receive dept.

chicksdaddy writes "Be careful of what you ask for. That's a lesson Max Schrems of Vienna, Austria learned the hard way when he sent a formal request to Facebook for a copy of every piece of personal information that the social network had collected on him, as required under European law. After a wait, the 24-year-old law student got what he was seeking: a CD with all his data stored on it — 1,222 files in all. The collection of PDFs was roughly the length of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, but told a more mundane story: a record of Schrems' years-long relationship with the world's largest social network, including reams of data he had deleted. Now Schrems is pushing Facebook to disclose even more of what it knows."

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  1. Pushing for more of what it knows... by Twigmon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because if at first you don't succeed, ask for even more pdfs O.O

    Sounds like he's doing this for attention...