In one of my tweets this morning, I saw a link to this blog entry: http://is.gd/gVmq where it complains about the TOS. I recently created a FB account, mostly to use it as a means by which others could share pictures with me. I never intended to actually post information or pictures myself, but every time I would ask for some common pictures from an event et al, I would immediately be asked for my FB account. I thought what the hell, just sign up. My bad.
My bad also was to not read the TOS properly.
The previous blog post pretty much points to a section on the TOS that indicates that FB can use your data for anything it wants. For example, they can take a picture of my kids, publish it on the front page of a magazine, and make money off of it. Even though I haven't posted anything, I decided to cancel my account. To my surprise. You can't. The account will still remain there and as soon as you try and login, they will send you a re-activation email. Now in Spain, and as Casey confirmed, in the UK too, that goes against that Data Protection act.
What I'm wondering is having signed up in Spain, but the service being provided in the US, what legal foot I have to stand on to get my data completely removed.