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Your first problem is "completely legal" -- you seem to assume that American law is controlling. Unfortunately, legal is place sensitive.

In order to do business in the EU you generally have to comply with their laws. One of the privileges the EU generally grants their citizens is that companies must, on demand, produce all data they store about that person. Why should this be true? Because EU citizens living in democracies want it to be so.

If fb doesn't like it they are free to not do business there. Otherwise, they have to comply.



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