In certain countries there is law protecting information about people held digitally. My understanding of this legislation is to allow the citizen to access in

In certain countries there is law protecting information about people held digitally. My understanding of this legislation is to allow the citizen to access information held on themselves and give them rights over that information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 How does this affect facebook? What about other European laws? It sounds like using data on a purpose collected on another premise, without agreement, could be illegal.