Facebook Lies
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Facebook Lies
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#2Quite looking forward to GDPR forcing Facebook to actually remove all records they have on me. It’s a pain to implement for businesses, but it’s ultimately the right move.
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#3Have they always had such a 14-day policy? If not, it’s entirely possible that the policy was different when the account was previously deleted, and the account was being retained under that old policy.
I’m also surprised that his hacker didn’t bother changing his password - maybe it wasn’t intended to be an account takeover.
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#4Quite looking forward to GDPR forcing Facebook to actually remove all records they have on me. It’s a pain to implement for businesses, but it’s ultimately the right move.
At least for European customers. This won’t help everyone.
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#5Well when I "deleted" my account years ago, Facebook made it absolutely clear that it was really only deactiviating the thing and that it would retain its records. Nonetheless, as far as any of my friends can tell, I am no longer on Facebook at all.
So maybe the author of this post removed his account at an earlier period when Facebook didn't make such an honest claim. In that case the title should be "Facebook used to lie."
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#6I'm really really hoping regulators get their act together and come down hard on this sort of things.
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#7Who expects anything different, really, from companies like Facebook?
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#8This happened to me as well when I signed up for spotify under the same email I used for facebook, was shocked to see my ~six year old deleted account suddenly become "reactivated" despite them claiming it was "deleted" at the time. Nope, all the stupid stuff that was hilarious to post in 2007 was still there and came right up.
Turns out they never delete anything.
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#9Huh? It's always been this way. Like more than 10 years ago I messed around trying with account deactivation. I've had a fb account since ~2004 it was only avail to certain colleges. This is exactly how it's always been. Am i missing something here? They never actually "delete" anything whatsoever. Isn't this already well known..
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#10This reminds me of the hilarious phonecalls trying to cancel accounts at other companies: