{"id":2446,"date":"2011-11-14T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2011-11-14T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T03:15:17","slug":"the-man-who-is-taking-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/the-man-who-is-taking-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who is taking on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UK (TheDrum<\/a>): Max Schrems had been using Facebook for three years when he decided to find out just how much material on him the social network had accumulated. So he asked .The response was awe-inspiring . On a CD sent to the 24-year-old Austrian student were 1222 pages of information.<\/h3>\n

Awe-inspiring , that is, to everyone but Schrems. He believes there is much more. Only 23 out of 57 data categories were covered, he says, and he wants the rest.<\/p>\n

Some material in the original 1222 pages was stuff he thought he had deleted long since. Now he is conducting a debate on his website,\u00a0www.europe-v-facebook.org<\/a>, on the meaning of the word “delete”. (See below).<\/p>\n

The aim of his campaign is to make Facebook stick to European privacy laws. Facebook say they are now doing just that . European law says a company must have a good reason to keep your data beyond several months .<\/p>\n

Schrems and his group have made 22 formal complaints to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner \u2014 which is responsible for Facebook\u2019s Ireland-based European offshoot.<\/p>\n

Facebook do not deny they they have more stuff on Schrems but say they have given him all the information legally required. Others in his group have got the same response .<\/p>\n

Facebook says it can hold back things that are not personal information, including Facebook\u2019s proprietary fraud protection measures, and “any other analytical procedure that Facebook runs.” A spokesman said this was not personal data, adding, ” Irish data protection law rightly places some valuable and reasonable limits on the data that has to be provided.”<\/p>\n

The Irish commissioner is however formally investigating Schrems\u2019 complaints. Schrem’s group is delighted at the international press and TV coverage they have been getting – from Australia to the US. This week they celebrated what they called ” the only positive prize” at of the Big Brother Awards in Vienna: the \u201cDefensor Libertatis\u201d prizer. Facebook also got a \u201cBig Brother Award\u201d, they report gleefully. The prize in the category \u201clifelong pain in the ass\u201d went to Mark Zuckerberg .<\/p>\n

THE DELETED DATA DEBATE<\/h3>\n

Concerning reports about deleted data which sometimes appear in the downloaded files it has to be said\u00a0 that it concerns, in this case, probably posts which were removed on a certain place on Facebook, but were not deleted. Or the information had to be kept for a short time for investigations. We work on preforming this process as seamlessly as possible.\u201c (German RTL \/ Stern TV, October 5th 2011)
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