A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him all their data stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this. Because Facebook is based in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then Facebook sent Max a CD with 1222 PDF files.
Note that the US Intelligence receives all data from Facebook automatically. This is not a conspiracy but a fact: under US law Facebook has to give full access and to make things easier they just automated the process. In short Facebook is ‘Evil’.
But to put it all in perspective: 5% of users generates 75% of Facebooks content. 50% of users entered into Facebook only once without any post. 90% of relationships in Facebook are reflecting to 10% only in real life. In short the quality of the intelligence is quite poor.
Most European politicians are older than the internet itself. They have a very poor record concerning the protection of the privacy of it’s people. Like Facebook they rather service their own and foreign intelligence services or close deals with copyright infringement lobbyist. It’s not expected that the EU will achieve any basic privacy and security for their constituency (Europeans) on Facebook soon.
My advice is to stay ignorant on the matter, enjoy Facebook.
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