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Facebook could face a fine of up to €100,000 (£87,000) after an Austrian law student discovered the social networking site held 1,200 pages of personal data about him, much of which he had deleted.
Max Schrems, 24, decided to ask Facebook for a copy of his data in June after attending a lecture by a Facebook executive while on an exchange programme at Santa Clara University in California.
Schrems was shocked when he eventually received a CD from California containing messages and information he says he had deleted from his profile in the three years since he joined the site.
Facebook could face ?100,000 fine for holding data that users have deleted - Readability
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In India Facebook would probably get a pat on the back for keeping such impressive logs of every single activity by their users which can be used by the government in the long term.
Max Schrems, 24, decided to ask Facebook for a copy of his data in June after attending a lecture by a Facebook executive while on an exchange programme at Santa Clara University in California.
Schrems was shocked when he eventually received a CD from California containing messages and information he says he had deleted from his profile in the three years since he joined the site.
Facebook could face ?100,000 fine for holding data that users have deleted - Readability
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In India Facebook would probably get a pat on the back for keeping such impressive logs of every single activity by their users which can be used by the government in the long term.
The worst was when they changed privacy settings regarding open groups. Anything you commented was visible on your friends' newsfeed even if they were not a member of that group. A lot of group mods thereafter wanted to change the group privacy settings to closed only to realise that beyond a particular number of members, an open group can not be changed back to a closed one. Most people either stopped commenting in those groups or simply created group specific fake profiles.
A controversial Swedish internet surveillance law passed in 2008 allows the government there to intercept any internet traffic that passes Sweden's borders with no need for a court warrant. It's called the FRA law and the Swedes don't like it, and Google called it "unfit for a Western democracy". And the rest of Europe could start to get annoyed by it too when that internet traffic includes their Facebook data.
When the server kicks up in 2013, it will host Facebook for most of the site's European users and that will mean that photos of you at your sister's birthday party, your status updates and private messages to your girlfriend will be just part of the data pool that the Swedish executive will be able to dip in and of at its leisure. No legal permission necessary.
Facebook's Swedish data centre will be subject to Snoop Law ? The Register - Readability
When the server kicks up in 2013, it will host Facebook for most of the site's European users and that will mean that photos of you at your sister's birthday party, your status updates and private messages to your girlfriend will be just part of the data pool that the Swedish executive will be able to dip in and of at its leisure. No legal permission necessary.
Facebook's Swedish data centre will be subject to Snoop Law ? The Register - Readability
Facebook Privacy: Social Network Tracks Users After They Leave Site; Congress, FTC - ABC News
Facebook pretty much confirms that they track you even when you are not using their service actively.
Facebook pretty much confirms that they track you even when you are not using their service actively.
IndianMascot
Addicts
Facebook hit with unsolicited porn, violent videos - Yahoo!
Facebook users were tricked into pasting and executing "malicious" javascript in their browser URL bar, which led to them unknowingly sharing the content, Noyes explained
Facebook users were tricked into pasting and executing "malicious" javascript in their browser URL bar, which led to them unknowingly sharing the content, Noyes explained
Facebook users should read this: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. - Anil Dash
soodgautam
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Facebook’s Settlement With FTC Confirmed: Privacy Changes Must Be Opt In | TechCrunch
The FTC made 7 key complaints about how Facebook has handled privacy in the past, and many of the issues still stand:
[*]Facebook didn’t warn user that Friend Lists and other data would become public when it transitioned to a new privacy model in December 2009
[*]Apps can request access to almost any piece of user data, though Facebook said they could only access data they need to operate.
[*]The “Friends Only” privacy setting still allowed data to be accessed by third-party apps used by friends.
[*]The “Verified Apps” program didn’t actually verify the security of apps.
[*]Facebook shared personal data with advertisers when it promised it wouldn’t.
[*]Content on deactivated and deleted accounts could still be accessed despite claims to the contrary.
[*]Data of users in the European Union was transferred in violation of the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
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The FTC made 7 key complaints about how Facebook has handled privacy in the past, and many of the issues still stand:
[*]Facebook didn’t warn user that Friend Lists and other data would become public when it transitioned to a new privacy model in December 2009
[*]Apps can request access to almost any piece of user data, though Facebook said they could only access data they need to operate.
[*]The “Friends Only” privacy setting still allowed data to be accessed by third-party apps used by friends.
[*]The “Verified Apps” program didn’t actually verify the security of apps.
[*]Facebook shared personal data with advertisers when it promised it wouldn’t.
[*]Content on deactivated and deleted accounts could still be accessed despite claims to the contrary.
[*]Data of users in the European Union was transferred in violation of the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
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