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I'm confused by your question. How is this not legal? Most of Facebook's EU legal troubles are to do with them storing too much information for too long, in bre

by rmc 14y ago

I'm confused by your question. How is this not legal? Most of Facebook's EU legal troubles are to do with them storing too much information for too long, in breech of EU data protection law This "deleting personal information" seems to fall within the spirit if the law

DanBC 14y ago
That's Data Protection law. But some organisations have to retain data under the Data Retention (EC Regulations 2009) statutory instrument. (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/859/contents/made http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/859/contents/made) I have no idea if Facebook is covered by that law. I don't think they are, but maybe someone here knows more than I do. And maybe some groups are pushing for more organisations to retain data?