Taking a Stand To Protect Privacy*

Max Schrems, a 24-year-old law student from Salzburg, Austria, wanted to know what Facebook knew: he requested his own Facebook file. What he got turned out to be a virtual bildungsroman, 1,222 pages long. It contained wall posts he had deleted, old messages that revealed a friend's troubled state of mind, even information that he didn't enter himself about his physical whereabouts. Mr. Schrems