The Austrian-based organisation Europe v Facebook said on Thursday that Facebook was working on an automated system in response to a campaign, in which the group had urged people to request the personal data it holds on them.
Europe v Facebook says the current system, in which users can wait up to 30 days to get the data, contravenes European privacy law. It is possible for users to download most of their own data from the site, but that only covers the information that they themselves have uploaded. It does not include information that other people have put up, which Facebook has linked to the user in question.
"A Facebook representative has now told the group that, after receiving a massive amount of access requests following the campaign of Europe v Facebook in German-speaking countries, Facebook is now working on a system to automatically process access requests," the campaigners said in a statement.
In an email seen by ZDNet UK, the Facebook representative told Europe v Facebook that the company is sorting through the various legal and technical issues that surround setting up a scalable data request fulfilment system.
The campaign group noted that it is unclear if the new system will satisfy its demands, as the nature of the system is itself not yet apparent, nor is a timescale for its release. It is also unclear how many data requests have been made in response to Europe v Facebook's urging, although the organisation says the page explaining how to make such requests has received 47,818 hits.
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Source: zdnet.co.uk
By: David Meyer
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