What are we talking about here? Data associated with specific users? Well in order for your grandma to log into Facebook her user account must have a primary k

What are we talking about here? Data associated with specific users? Well in order for your grandma to log into Facebook her user account must have a primary key associated with it so she sees her info when she logs in and not someone else’s. We are talking about computers and databases. When did using a computer to search a database become a difficult, nigh impossible thing to do? Even if design documents and flow charts or whatever don’t exist could they not fairly straightforwardly be reverse engineered by taking a sample of users and searching all databases for associated information? This seems like a transparent ploy on the part of Facebook to avoid regulation by casting the perfectly doable, searching a database, into some sort of incomprehensible impossible task. The credulous author of the article and many comments here seem to be strangely buying into it. FB investors don’t seem to have lost faith in the company’s ability to search databases. When it comes to making the company money from those searches, no problem at all. But regarding lawsuits or potential regulation, we can only throw our hands into the air and simply wonder and gasp at this incomprehensible mess we have made.