Facebook is not a governmental entity, there is no law on the US books that obliges them to do anything with your data that they don't want to. The only protection you have is copyright, and that is weaksauce for private individuals. On 10/27/2011 12:24 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Robert Nesius wrote: > >> A follow-up to the facebook/privacy conversation, I think most of you >> would find this of interest. >> >> http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201 > > > Nice article. The table at the end lists all of the things Facebook is > doing. Much of that is obvious and it doesn't bother me. The > "excessive processing" thing is worrisome -- what are they doing? The > other thing that bothers me a lot is that Facebook refuses to delete > data, or whole accounts. So if I want out, they say "no". You can stop > logging in, and you can stop adding information, and maybe they will > stop displaying your account to others, but they keep the data forever. > I knew about that problem from before I signed up, but I signed up > anyway. I thought they would not be allowed to just keep it forever, > but that will be up to the courts. Meanwhile, I avoid giving them any > of my secrets. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list