rubenverborgh

Just not putting all my cards on the table for them to see yet, but I will eventually. The tone drew attention to the case from press and local authorities, which resulted in the right people reaching out to me. It's unconventional, but there's a method in my madness.

I have zero interest in harassing people. Unconventional replies cause escalation; Facebook’s current staff on this is on a higher pay scale than most. I’ve made my mails impossible to ignore to the point of there being no plausible deniability; the entire GDPR department is aware by now. Given what you and others wrote above, it should probably be clear what real actions are going on behind the smoke and mirrors on my site.

Those are strong assumptions :-) And the snark has a purpose, it’s what draws the attention of readers and people who follow suit. Dry legalese is seldom read.

Exactly.

A precedent, I think.

Trust me, I don't take myself too seriously ;-)

Facebook responds with an overload of legal nonsense to discourage people from replying. I overload them with a lot of non-legal nonsense. In the end I just want my data—it's my legal right.

No worries, that e-mail is definitely not my only response. Not putting all my cards on the table yet.

Grandstanding is not my goal; it's a means of attracting attention to a matter that people have been desensitized to. A secondary goal is to cause internal escalation. In the end, I really just want my data, as way to create a path for myself and others.

At that point, it becomes a legal matter. Not everything can be solved with technology. (There's homomorphic encryption, bet let's leave that aside for now.) The GDPR legislation in Europe sets a good precedent for demanding removal of our data.

The crucial point is that Solid will bring more choice: there will be social feed viewers that will be more invasive, and those that will be less invasive. People can choose the one they like, without consequences as to whom they can interact with. Today, we do not have a choice: if we want to interact with people who use Facebook, we have to use Facebook as well.

It does. But linkeddata.org is not an authoritative source, and even though that statement is partially correct, that doesn't mean that JavaScript developers will need to be exposed to RDF. Just like JavaScript developers aren't exposed to assembly, even though V8 generates it.

No, I mean RDF in general. As you can read in the article I linked to above, programming with Linked Data does not necessarily require RDF.