Max Schrems, a 24-year-old law student, asked Facebook for a copy of his data after attending a lecture by a Facebook executive at Santa Clara University in California.

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The Frost software helped them copy data on a phone that could then be analysed on a separate computer.

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The disabled account goes into a sort of Facebook limbo, where the owner of the account can't get their hands on any of the content -- photos, posts, videos -- not even by requesting a copy of the data, according to Facebook.

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