via Rebecca Hill, crafting superlative reportage at our favorite security related news outlet - El Reg - comes the latest evidence that Facebookery is still alive and well: A non-Facebook user in the Republic of Ireland requested his data... Here's what happened:

"Facebook's refusal to hand over the data it holds on users' web activity is to be probed by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner after a complaint from a UK-based academic. Under the General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force on 25 May, people can demand that organisations hand over the data they hold on them." - via Rebecca Hill, writing at The Register