http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201
Max is a 24 year old law student from Vienna with a flair for the interview and plenty of smarts about both technology and legal issues. In Europe there is a requirement that entities with data about individuals make it available to them if they request it. That’s how Max ended up with a personalized CD from Facebook that he printed out on a stack of paper more than a thousand pages thick (see image below). Analysing it, he came to the conclusion that Facebook is engineered to break many of the requirements of European data protection. He argues that the record Facebook provided him finds them to be in flagrante delicto.
I think Facebook is screwed on this one. Had they not opened an office in Dublin they may have been ok, but now they're subject to EU privacy law which is way more strict than US law.Facebook’s “Like” button collects information every time an Internet user views a page containing the button, and a Facebook cookie associates that page with all the other pages with “Like” buttons visited by the user in the last 3 months. If you use Facebook, records of all these visits are linked, through cookies, to your Facebook profile - even if you never click the “like” button.
I can also see Twitter, Google, Apple and other big data players getting screwed if this goes bad for Facebook.
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