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few weeks ago, published an article on Techdirt group of European campaign called "Europe against Facebook", which is trying to figure out exactly what information Facebook has on its users. That makes use of European laws on data protection, thanks to the fact that the international headquarters of Facebook in Ireland.

group founder, Max Schrems, received a response to your application data contained in Facebook as a CD-ROM to store over 800 pages. But looking through them, Schrems realize that important information was lost, and thus new contact Facebook, request additional details. However, Facebook refused:

to date revealed any personal data which he is entitled under section 4 of the Irish Data Protection 1988 and 2003 (the procedure).

Note that some categories of personal data are exempt from subject access requests. In accordance with Article 4 (9) Acts, personal data, it is impossible to provide or that can only be provided after a disproportionate effort is exempt from the scope of a subject access request. They provided personal data that can not be removed from our platform in the absence of a disproportionate effort.

seems hard to believe that a sophisticated and cutting-edge company like Facebook can not extract any information about a user - network node basic social - without "disproportionate effort", but it is not the real problem here. With all these efforts terrible, Facebook is another reason cited for refusing to provide the missing details Schrems

section 4 (12) of the Acts of digging an exception to the access requests that the revelations contained in the response can affect the trade secret or other intellectual property. No other information you think it's a trade secret or intellectual property of Facebook Ireland Limited or its licensors.
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