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I'm not sure whether FB would even be the right target for such an action. From my understanding of data protection laws here in Germany, the individual FB users would be the violators. I assume that the Safe Harbor treaty allows US companies to expect uploaded data to be legal.


I've seen my information all over the web which was data scraped from public government databases. A few years ago I went through the trouble of taking my information down (names, aliases, previous places I lived, employment) from these websites according their policy. For each I was request to send in snail mail to their postal address etc. I didn't need to create a login/profile to contact them. they did stop listing me, or at least I'm not as searchable online in as much depth.

not sure if Facebook has a policy for deleting information in the same regards as these spam sites. They might be legitimate and large enough to not care.




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