Europe Moves to Protect Online Privacy - NYTimes.com The European media seized on Mr. Schrems’s discovery. German newspapers published instructions on how to request personal data files from Facebook. Within a few months, 40,000 people had made similar requests. The data protection office in Ireland, where Facebook has its European data center, conducted an audit of Facebook’s data retention practices; the company agreed to overhaul the way it collects data in Europe, including disposing of user data “much sooner.” http://nyti.ms/wIfMlD Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/sunday-review/europe-moves-to-protect-online-privacy.html?_r=1 See if people are clicking on this link: http://nyti.ms/wIfMlD+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]