Facebook is a company that can find itself easily being a target of holding information that is not "technically" suppose to be held. This is due to the fact that there are so many users and each one may have a different view on what they think is and is not acceptable for the company to do. People use this site to network with others and communicate with friends which leads to the issue of privacy rights that many feel they should have. Facebook seems to try and change these rights allowing Facebook to hold onto any information that they want.
The latest controversy started in the Ireland offices for Facebook. Recently an Austrian law student decided he wanted Facebook to send him a copy of all of his personal data. Facebook complied and sent him the information on a CD which was 1,200 pages worth of material. The problem was that this 24 year old male had deleted some of the information from his Facebook but it still showed up in the document sent to him from the company.
The law student started something called Europe vs. Facebook in which he filed 22 individual claims. Many of these claims deal with the Terms of Use policy by Facebook and how individuals feel their rights to privacy are not upheld. This has led to Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner calling for an audit of Facebook's offices before Christmas and this could lead to a fine of $138,000 against the company. Although the fine is not large it is the negative publicity that could affect the company the most.
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