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And this is why under German law the BDSG §34 exists, which allows every citizen to request, once every 12 months, for free, from every company a list of all da
by kuschku 9y ago
And this is why under German law the BDSG §34 exists, which allows every citizen to request, once every 12 months, for free, from every company a list of all data the company has on the citizen, how they got it, whom they gave it to, and all statistical models that were derived from the data, or that had an influence on the data.
It’d be interesting to make a BDSG §34 request about "People you may know", just to see how Facebook responds (and if you have to pull them through court)
- criddell 9y agoHow does Facebook report inferred connections or connections deduced by looking at a larger graph? Their obligation to tell you what they know about you shouldn't infringe on my privacy.
- DataWorker 9y agoBut it does impact your privacy, that's the whole point.
- jerf 9y agoIf a German HN reader would be so kind as to make that request and report back on what they get, I can absolutely positively guarantee that they will be the happy recipient of One Internet Point from me when they submit the story to HN.
- teamhappy 9y agoYou don't have to be German. Anyone outside the US and Canada has the right to access their FB data. See http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data_.html http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_...
- contingencies 9y agoCool. If someone figures out the process let's all do it. I quit FB yeaaaaaaaaaaars ago (~2008?) but would be keen to check the shadow profile. I wonder if you can do that? Incidentally I am German by third citizenship.
- thg 9y agoYou get a CD with every conversation you ever had, every picture you uploaded, everything you shared on that wall. "Deleted" or not, it's on there. Pretty much every interaction you ever had while browsing Facebook. Nothing about your shadow profile, though.
- newscracker 9y agoDo you know anyone who has requested all this information, seen how it was provided and was able to make sense of it, especially from a platform like Facebook? What format is the information provided as? HTML files with graphs? XML files (gasp)?
- teamhappy 9y ago> What format is the information provided as? HTML files with graphs? XML files (gasp)? PDF: https://hayvan-storage-wordpress-master-studiowien.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2015/04/evf_max_stack-kl.jpg https://hayvan-storage-wordpress-master-studiowien.s3.amazon... That's Max Schrems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems) with his 1222 pages of FB data.
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