Facebook witness: 9 ½ hours of “we don’t know”

After more than 9 hours, the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters (LGfZRS) closed the oral hearing in the data protection case against Facebook. The judgement will be issued in writing within the next months. The witness of Facebook (Cecilia Alvarez) emphasized repeatedly that data protection on Facebook would be easy to understand – just to say that she did not understand what the platform does with the data whenever a concrete question was posed. If there was any answer, it was usually not about the question that the witness was asked about. Schrems: “It was great to see how Facebook says that every user has knowingly agreed to the use of personal data – but their head data protection person is unable to answer even the simplest questions. In the end, it remains that Facebook cannot or will not explain what they do with user data. Delete? Personal Data? Passwords? What Facebook understands by “deletion” remained open. In many cases, the data on Facebook seems to remain stored and