Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests
This is the part that troubles me about this:<p>> “The exceptionally broad nature of the Commission’s requests means we would be required to turn over predominantly irrelevant documents that have nothing to do with the Commission’s investigations, including highly sensitive personal information such as employees’ medical information, personal financial documents, and private information about family members of employees,” Facebook associate general counsel Tim Lamb said in a statement.<p>Why does FB even <i>have</i> employee medical information and personal financial records?  I can sort of understand how they might inadvertently end up with small snippets of medical information via their HR process (<i>e.g.</i> Sally Software Engineer submits a request for maternity leave), but, other than possibly account numbers for stock accounts and deposit accounts, I'm scratching my head as to what they even <i>mean</i> by "medical information" and "personal financial documents."