Although Facebook has many proponents, a great
number of them find at least something annoying about this social network. A 24-year-old student from Austria, Max Schrems, finds the whole idea of Facebook not only annoying, but against
the law. According to Schrems FB makes illegal use of its users’
private data.
Max Schrems
got interested by this dark side of Facebook
last year, when he came for a one-semester student exchange to Santa Clara
University, US. Then, his professor invited Facebook privacy lawyer Ed
Palmieri to give a speech to the class. Schrems was shocked that the lawyer
had little idea about how severe data
protection laws are in Europe. He decided to write his thesis about Fecebook not understanding Europe’s privacy
law. While making research for his paper, Max found out that Faceboook owns hundreds-of-pages-long acts about one
user and keeps data even about those who signed out from FB. After his come back to Austria, he publicized his findings
online. Now this is a case for Congress.
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