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Original article at [1] and do see a video at [2] which tells how the data once published on Facebook never gets deleted and how Max Scherms, a law student got, a 1200 page document, in a CD that was sent to him in reply of his request to know what data of his, is stored with Facebook! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- One Man s War Against Facebook on the European Front Max Scherms is a 24-year-old law student from Vienna who is hell-bent on changing the rules Facebook plays by. As a visiting student in California last semester, he was puzzled by a class visit from a Facebook representative, whose ideas of European privacy laws were very different than Scherms's own understanding. Since then, he's filed 22 complaints against Facebook Ireland Limited, the subsidiary that oversees European users of the social network, for everything from poking to tagging to facial recognition. He's also started a group called Europe Versus Facebook, which fights for users to obtain more power over their own information. For example, did you know that the Facebook "Like" button gathers user information, not just every time you click it, but every time you end up on a page that contains the button at all? That cookie then associates the page with all the others you've visited over the last three months. "The first problem is the lack of transparency," Scherms told us via e-mail today. "The second problem is the lack of user control. We deposit our data at Facebook, but we cannot to efficiently control what is happening to them." Even if you're deleting things from your profile, they're still keeping the information, he contends, and so you're "actually just hiding it from yourself." Although his movement is based in Europe, Scherms says that if he's successful, Facebook will be forced to implement changes worldwide, "so it is very likely that U.S. residents will get more rights too." Scherms also has an eye on Google+, although he has no legal rights to file complaints against them in Europe. Like most twentysomethings, though, Scherms is also insistent that he's a fan of the services provided. "I think that social networking is a pretty cool thing, so I don't see why I should limit myself just because Facebook is not following the laws," he said. Plus, he added, "Facebook has a monopoly on our friends." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1]http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/one_mans_war_against_facebook.html [2]https://www.youtube.com/user/europevfacebook#p/c/8ED10AB2E76CD62E PS: Do click on CC to get the English subtitles as the audio is in a diff. language! - -- Parin Sharma https://identi.ca/FRDManiac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOqulMAAoJEDBRDM+7GY5ONiEIAKsJlNwsQFc7D0JW/rJWV83b L9im5hJKeSIOy+aimpkJd9bH8Y09sPOZUlIu+cAlTACEQupUaFJ3IeXlnPoI9sKB 8nd09GKNZ0XJnBdxmwZC6vwZyI/TB12ulpuCOoSM+MX/TxQMtq7cogxVFFnJ0oMs lntM8vb/gu+TZv8Xs0hkiE0rN9hHC4ri/TnoXSFFE8r/CrGfljvm3LHe4+z2OaiY UViOQ1Zis2F66peE5MLG37jdyVdEd9dcGp4Lugpemp6VNjysXJSEg7CBr38LSiDo PK6w6e9ZnLpQdkm3y/vimX8kMrC6sg3xGpn8oC+zqld09TuOHv/v0X5EFUbLqiI= =ETG7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
