Facebook Privacy Policies Challenged By Austrian Law Student

A CD containing 1,222 pages of data sparked another attack on Facebook's privacy policies, this one from a 24-year-old law student in Austria.


A CD containing 1,222 pages of data sparked yet another challenge of Facebook’s privacy policies, this one from a 24-year-old Austraian law student named Max Schrems.

This is the latest of 22 formal legal complaints that Schrems has filed against Facebook filed with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.

Schrems has been filing these challenges via an online campaign he started in August called Europe Versus Facebook.

He explained his motives to the Associated Press: “I am not interested in money.

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