Yes, I pretty much agree with this. I am sure many IT companies could technically be in trouble with the Data Protection Act in the UK alone for very similar br

Yes, I pretty much agree with this. I am sure many IT companies could technically be in trouble with the Data Protection Act in the UK alone for very similar breaches as Facebook and I am sure many companies would not even be able to provide a CD containing a nice break down of all data about a user (even though they are legally obliged to do so). However, I find it interesting why people get paranoid about the mindless jibber-jabber on facebook compared to the immense and more presice data google stores about individuals... and I imagine getting a CD out of google would be far harder than from facebook (by the looks of things). Google are clever by being 'open' and allowing people to download 'some' of the data they hold about peoeple, but I am sure they would be as reluctant as facebook to make everything accesible.