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We begin the “week in the web” with Frederik Hovenik from “heute.de” and we start out with a scandal.
There was something with Facebook. What was wrong there?
>> The story is not all new, however, it shows pretty good how much data we happen to leave behind on the Internet.
This stack of paper, these 1,200 pages. This is what Facebook has stored about a Viennese law student.
All this data was stored within 3 years.
>> From a single Person?
>> Exactly, and anyone can access them according to European data protection laws. The student has done this.
And right here we can take a deeper look into what was stored.
Facebook stores everything that we have done on the platform.
Here you see friends, gender, messages. It’s all together here.
Now this is not very astonishing. We might want to access this information later.
But also content, that was previously deleted, is still stored.
As an example: This message here.
Well, and Facebook knows even more about us, but they don’t want to reveal this information.
The reason is, as they say in this e-mail: This touches trade secrets, or intellectual property of Facebook.
>> And now what? Sounds really scary! Should we delete our profiles?
>> Well, of course you can leave Facebook. However, you can also try to reveal as little data as possible.
We mainly have to blame ourselves, if we put that much information on the net.
Facebook itself says, by the way, all this is legal. They say we agreed to it by agreeing to the terms.
However, there are already complaints filed.
Of course everybody can also request his/her data from Facebook.
How all this works can be found in the links on our website.
