A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him all their data stored about him.<\/p>\n
All Europeans have a right to do this because Facebook is based in the EU in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n
It took a while and then Facebook sent Max a\u00a0CD with 1222 PDF files<\/a>.<\/p>\n What does Facebook do with all this data? It makes money from it, selling on your data, your likes, dislikes, your ‘friends’\u00a0and \u00a0your privacy.\u00a0\u00a0 Just like Google.<\/p>\n Did you think of Facebook as an altruistic \u00a0organisation?.\u00a0 Set up by students, with questionable social skills, and an ongoing legal battle between founders, Facebook is devoted to $$.\u00a0 Why else is it playing with billions of dollars.<\/p>\n Check out this YouTube video<\/a>.<\/p>\n As with Microsoft and Google, ask yourself if using it is good for the world as well as for you. If its an open system its great.\u00a0 If its a closed system its like a mega-cult which isn’t good.\u00a0 They never are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 the EU in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then Facebook sent Max a\u00a0CD with 1222 PDF files. What …
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