How to find out how much Facebook knows about you

Facebook faces a fine of 100,000 euros to save user data had decided to remove them. This social network will undergo an audit by the Data Protection Commission of Ireland after recording 22 complaints by a student of Austrian law.


This claim is the first to the social network that Mark Zuckerberg is facing. Similarly, in late 2009, its creator and was denounced by the new privacy policy , because, according to U.S. partnerships "attacking the rights of their users."


On the other hand, the data center for protection of the German state Schleswig-Holstein in August declared illegal the plug- social and the button 'I like' , since it exposes the user profile. The website of this state should remove the button before September 30 or may be fined.


Information is power, and information about people is the power over people


Now, in Ireland, Max Schrems, 24, has decided to stand up to Facebook after discovering that this social network maintained 1,200 pages with personal data about him , though he had decided to eliminate it.


Now, in Ireland, Max Schrems, 24, has decided to stand up to Facebook after discovering that this social network maintained 1,200 pages with personal data about him , though he had decided to eliminate it.


Schrems called Facebook a copy of your data in the month of June, and from there when he received the CD containing all information that he realized that content previously removed from their profile in the three years he had joined this network, it still remained. After discovering this, made ​​contact with the Data Protection Commission of Ireland and, if you find out in their audit that Facebook or any employee was guilty of violating the data protection law would have a maximum penalty of a fine of 100,000 euros .


Between the pages collected from the complainant, he found a record of all movements (chats, photos, applications). This information was divided into 57 categories and included email addresses.


For its part, the Austrian, has appealed to all users to follow their example , then, is "scary" all the information that Facebook has in his possession, "information is power , and information about people is the power over people, "he concluded. To request data, European Union citizens simply have to fill out an application form and send it .


As regards Spain, the Association for the Study and Prevention of Crime, Abuse and Neglect Information Technology and Advanced Communications (APEDANICA) has informed the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) has requested this case and consider the 22 complaints.