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I hear that the Americans can cite The Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. ? 552a, Public Law No. 93-579, and the Canadians - the Privacy Act of 1983 :punk:

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Just did this, lol we will see what they have :p

From what I understand its the same thing as if you request to download your profile. only they put it on a disc.

*Update*

Email from Facebook

Hi,

Thank you for your inquiry. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to respond to your request, as this form is only applicable in certain jurisdictions.

If you have a Facebook account, you may access your personal data that Facebook holds by simply logging in. When you have logged in, you will be able to view, amend or delete that information.

You can download a copy of the personal information you've shared on your Facebook profile. Please visit the following page to learn how to obtain your account information:

https://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=download

If you would like to permanently delete your Facebook account and remove your personal information from our database, you can find out how to do so here:

https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=842

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Because they annoy me with their blatant lack of respect for their customers.

As they say, "annoy for annoy". (sorry I had to :p)

First thing, I doubt you are their customer. Their customers are the ones that pay for adverts with them. You are just an end-user of a free service.

When a company becomes as big as they have of course they are going to annoy people.

They also have to deal with serious complaints and issues, not waste their time with things like this.

They annoy you, don't use them. I have not heard of anybody being held at gunpoint by Facebook to use their service yet.

Perhaps I should get everybody to phone McDonald's and hangup because they annoy me as the amount of onion in their burgers.

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I bet some entry level employees are going to have to pull serious overtime to handle all of this. Joe is going to have to work 60 hours for the next month because some people wanted a laugh on the internet, great stuff guys. (Y)

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I bet some entry level employees are going to have to pull serious overtime to handle all of this. Joe is going to have to work 60 hours for the next month because some people wanted a laugh on the internet, great stuff guys. (Y)

If they decided to go through with the requests it would be automated. You can already pack up your account and all the information they have on you.

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If they decided to go through with the requests it would be automated. You can already pack up your account and all the information they have on you.

They have to physically mail you the media though. Even if the whole burning process is automated someone will still have to sit there all day and assemble the envelope and take it to the post office. Then there's also the issue of the postman handling the insane amount of mail.

The whole point is that this is a dick thing to do and it will only hurt the little guy trying to earn a paycheck. It's not going to hurt the company or the CEO. It's just a dick move just for a 'lolz'

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If they decided to go through with the requests it would be automated. You can already pack up your account and all the information they have on you.

That's not true. All they provide is the data that you've intentionally uploaded. They don't provide *all* the information. For example, the IPs they logged for an account are not included.

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The whole point is that this is a dick thing to do and it will only hurt the little guy trying to earn a paycheck. It's not going to hurt the company or the CEO. It's just a dick move just for a 'lolz'

Yep +1

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First thing, I doubt you are their customer. Their customers are the ones that pay for adverts with them. You are just an end-user of a free service...blah

Jeez, lighten up :| . I was just setting up for the "eye for an eye" joke..

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BTW, they don't have to provide a physical copy at all under the Data Protection Act, they merely have to furnish you with the information. It's common practice for companies to just pull it up on a monitor at the reception if asked. Therefor facebook have complied anyway with the profile download link

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So hold on a second... You are trying to fight Facebook for having too much information on you, and yet by doing this you are giving them your physical address? That's an interesting way to fight a company that already knows too much about you.

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First thing, I doubt you are their customer. Their customers are the ones that pay for adverts with them. You are just an end-user of a free service.

I don't think so. Technically we are subscribers (we have subscribed to their service bound by an agreement we agreed to to be able to use their service). Subscribers can be, and in most cases are, the same as customers.

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What a stupid thing to do.

Even if Facebook are bound by our Data Protection Act, you must specifically request a subject access request, not merely quote paragraph and clause numbers. Secondly, Facebook would have the right to ask you for a maximum of £10+VAT before processing your request. Finally, they then have forty days to respond.

I have better things to do with my time and money then request information I gave to Facebook in the first place.

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Sadly I couldn't participate in this even if works in my country, because I never trusted facebook with my real name. I used my extremely common first name and a very common surname. Mostly so that it wasn't easy for every moron I've ever worked with or went to school with to find me and add me. And now I'm quite glad that's the case. :)

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