As Facebook faces an audit over its storage of information, Channel 4 News talks to the 24-year-old Austrian student who has gone head to head with the social networking giant.
As part of his research into privacy law this summer, 24-year-old Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to turn over all the data the social networking site had collected on him for the past three years, as is his right under European data protection legislation.
In response, Facebook sent him a CD containing more than 1,200 pages of wall posts, messages, removed friends, and "pokes" - activity that Mr Schrems thought had been deleted.
"I think it's quite frightening just how much data is stored by Facebook," Mr Schrems told Channel 4 News.
"They think it's legal and they talk about 'industry standards'. That may be the case in America, but this is Europe, and they're just not getting it," he continued.
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