On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Daniel Taylor wrote: > Facebook is not a governmental entity, there is no law on the US books > that obliges them to do anything with your data that they don't want to. I am not a lawyer, but if I were a lawyer, I would find it hard to know that "there is no law" obliging anything because I would have to know all of the laws to make that statement, wouldn't I? Another tricky issue is that laws often have very broad effects. For example, a law protecting privacy might be construed to impact on this issue of data storage. In other words, I'll believe you when I know that Facebook has been taken to court and has won a case. Or has that already happened? Mike