Alan Burlison, a Facebook user in the U.K., tried to delete his Facebook account — and found that traces of his data remained on Facebook's servers, in apparent contradiction to British privacy laws. Alerted by Channel 4, a U.K. TV network, government officials promised to investigate. Facebook retains the data in part to make it easier for people to reactivate accounts after deleting them. (One can just imagine how the whims of emotionally fragile college students prompted this policy in the first place.) Sadly, this isn't the real privacy scandal to investigate. Why are no government officials looking into Facebook's big problem with internal privacy abuses by its own employees?

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