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during the finals of the european foosball tournament german legislation passed a law that allows the registration bureaus to sell your data to third parties. how long before they sell our biometric ready passport picture to fb along with our current address, birthday and other data? even opt out does not work when the third party already has partial data.



If the government is selling your personal data then Facebook is the least of your worries.




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