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How Much Does Facebook Retain? (3)

1 Name: Julie Arte : 2012-09-19 11:00 ID:9bSIbzK2 (Image: 639x569 jpg, 85 kb) [Del]

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How Much Does Facebook Retain?
An Austrian law student wanted to know how much data about him had been stored by the world’s largest social network during his three-year membership, so he requested a copy. Facebook sent him a CD containing 1,222 pages of data. As reported by the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, the student said: “Everything had been stored—every message, every chat, including sensitive information about friends.” Included was information that he was sure he had deleted!

2 Name: Xros : 2012-09-19 12:18 ID:JmsWepYC [Del]

Well, we all take the risk of having our information stored on the internet when we join a site like Facebook. The only real reason they keep all the information from pictures, messages, private messages and deleted info, is for legal reason.
Those being investigations into someone's background that officials don't have, or if some group is planning to commit crimes, to have documents of that.

Over all, if people do not want their personal information in any one's hands, they should never post it online.

3 Name: Zeckarias !LoWvdc0uhQ : 2012-09-19 22:19 ID:E8NlsZ1y [Del]

>>2 Agreed. After all, he was the person who requested the information, not someone else. They do have all this info on file, but under tight lock-and-key. Of course, the idea of someone hacking into those files...getting all that information...so much that people don't even want to see about themselves (I feel like I'm toying with Anon right now, God knows they've tried.) is a devastating thought.
However, this comes back to the idea of how one uses the internet. We conquered land, and in doing so the masses found that we had changed it from an exciting place for new innovations and our own rules to be acted out as we will them into a place like everywhere else. Now we have the internet, where one can be an outlaw, a rebel, a vigilante, pretty much anything they wanted to without having to rededicate their entire lives. However, the limitations here have grown as well. There is almost nothing you can do on the web that cannot be traced somehow. Even places like here and 4chan can be followed back with the right amount of effort and technology, so yet again our frontier is being affronted from us. Now we must bite our tongues and watch our words more and more as we do in real life, or even more so since what we say in confidence is not recorded so easily. At the risk of being tracked myself, ain't that some shit?