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Oct 31, 2011 / 9:54pm

Max's privacy war brings Facebook to heel

Max Schrems wasn't sure what he would get when he asked Facebook to send him a record of his personal data from three years of using the site.

What the 24-year-old Austrian law student didn't expect, though, was 1222 pages of data on a CD. It included chats he had deleted more than a year ago, "pokes" dating back to 2008, invitations to which he had never responded, let alone attended, and hundreds of other details.

more on smh.com.au

It's an interesting development, though I don't see how exactly Max's actions brought “Facebook to heel”.