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And while I agree with not likely to upload photo of our driver's licence/etc.. it's pretty likely this is really just to verify that it's your account to delete (although I'm sure you could photoshop something that passes pretty easily if you were malicious) and it sounds like they remove that proof of identity pretty securely afterwards.
At least they emailed you about it. In my case they reactivated it for some reason and I had no idea for months until someone told me they saw my Facebook page. I had just deactivated because I wanted to take a break from all the fake relationships, but I never really hated the company itself. But now that I know this company just does whatever they want and doesn't care about the contract with their users, I despise…
It may not be Facebook themselves that caused the account reactivation. I'm was very recently in a similar situation having a Facebook account that was deactivated about 5 years ago (I thought I had deleted it). I received the exact same account reactivation notification email as in the article and I also started receiving photo post notification emails. Upon attempting to sign in to my Facebook account to investigat…
I would suspect a similar circumstance for the author's situation. Facebook does do some weird things to try to resume user engagement, but I've not really seen them re-active accounts on their own. More than likely it was password reuse resulting in a breach. The Author even considered that the password was checked by some automation against sites like haveibeenpwned, which makes sense to me to some degree for Faceb…
Can you imagine the chaos once they get hacked and their ID database leaks?
Pretty obvious your leaked email/password (from another website) was tried against facebook. And while I agree with not likely to upload photo of our driver's licence/etc.. it's pretty likely this is really just to verify that it's your account to delete (although I'm sure you could photoshop something that passes pretty easily if you were malicious) and it sounds like they remove that proof of identity pretty secure…
> We aren't aware of any suspicious login activity on your account
So they admit they don't think anything is going on, even. Facebook is just punishing the author because they committed the sin of password reuse. And the punishment for password reuse is apparently demanding ID before allowing the author to do anything with the account that belongs to them. Even though they control the email address associated with the account.
Since his Facebook account is clearly important to him, he shouldn't have reused a password that he shared with unimportant sites.
No I think you've missed the point, the _account_ is unimportant: "I do not want an account on Facebook. I have been happy to live without Facebook for the last 5 years." What is _important_ is the fact that it was activated without any user input, and can't be deactivated without handing over quite substantial trust.
It wasn't reactivated without any user input - or at least we can't possibly know that.
We just don't know who the user was who did the reactivating.
Pretty obvious your leaked email/password (from another website) was tried against facebook. And while I agree with not likely to upload photo of our driver's licence/etc.. it's pretty likely this is really just to verify that it's your account to delete (although I'm sure you could photoshop something that passes pretty easily if you were malicious) and it sounds like they remove that proof of identity pretty secure…
They say: > We aren't aware of any suspicious login activity on your account So they admit they don't think anything is going on, even. Facebook is just punishing the author because they committed the sin of password reuse. And the punishment for password reuse is apparently demanding ID before allowing the author to do anything with the account that belongs to them. Even though they control the email address associa…
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They say: > We aren't aware of any suspicious login activity on your account So they admit they don't think anything is going on, even. Facebook is just punishing the author because they committed the sin of password reuse. And the punishment for password reuse is apparently demanding ID before allowing the author to do anything with the account that belongs to them. Even though they control the email address associa…
They aren't aware of suspicious activity because they think OP reactivated his own account!
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I would suspect a similar circumstance for the author's situation. Facebook does do some weird things to try to resume user engagement, but I've not really seen them re-active accounts on their own. More than likely it was password reuse resulting in a breach. The Author even considered that the password was checked by some automation against sites like haveibeenpwned, which makes sense to me to some degree for Faceb…
The author clearly has access to the email account associated with the account. I don't see why they demand identification when they can just send a verification email, like literally every other website. What facebook is doing would make sense for a bank. They're not a bank. I know they think they are super duper important, but they're just another website that has no business demanding anyone's ID. Can you imagine…