There’s a very refined irony in this work having been led by a Brendan Sullivan out of Harvard (plus two South Asians, an East Asian, a Dutchman and an Italian American … you can keep jaw-dropping at the ironies as deep as you want to go).
Pieter Lamers: If you can claim protection under the European Data Protection Directive, you should be able to demand that they tell you what class they have assigned you into.
Andreas Geisler: If you can convince a judge that it’s a matter of Facebook having stored incorrect data about you, you can have the court order them to fix the data. Article 6:
1. Member States shall provide that personal data must be:
[…]
(d) accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that data which are inaccurate or incomplete, having regard to the purposes for which they were collected or for which they are further processed, are erased or rectified;
(The “Member States shall …” construct basically means that the DPD doesn’t apply directly; instead, EU states will have to make their own laws that work like the DPD specifies. There may be quaint loopholes or nuances in some of these local laws.)
John Hardy Developer 
I honestly thought they were already doing this.
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Will they tell me mine?
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There’s a very refined irony in this work having been led by a Brendan Sullivan out of Harvard (plus two South Asians, an East Asian, a Dutchman and an Italian American … you can keep jaw-dropping at the ironies as deep as you want to go).
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All the better to enslave you with…
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Pieter Lamers: If you can claim protection under the European Data Protection Directive, you should be able to demand that they tell you what class they have assigned you into.
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Or remove your account from Facebook.
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Andres Soolo what about if I don’t like the class they put me in? Can I sue them to make them acknowledge me as a Person of Some Importance?
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Andreas Geisler: If you can convince a judge that it’s a matter of Facebook having stored incorrect data about you, you can have the court order them to fix the data. Article 6:
1. Member States shall provide that personal data must be:
[…]
(d) accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that data which are inaccurate or incomplete, having regard to the purposes for which they were collected or for which they are further processed, are erased or rectified;
(The “Member States shall …” construct basically means that the DPD doesn’t apply directly; instead, EU states will have to make their own laws that work like the DPD specifies. There may be quaint loopholes or nuances in some of these local laws.)
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