Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted

Post by stjohnswarts » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 3:46 PM UTC

craigsmansion wrote: post #275

guessmyname wrote: post #8

This reminds me of the long conversations that I used to have with family members and friends several years ago. With their continuous requests to create my own Facebook profile so I can keep in contact with them and with their activities as well as to share my whereabouts. I always used the same argument to reject these suggestions — "I don't want Facebook to have too much data about me, more than the data that you…

Unfortunately there will be no prizes for having been right all along. Even now, as facebook is burning, statements of how one has quit or will be quitting facebook get swept into the pile of incendiary indignation, with encouragement from all sides. But never having used facebook, even at significant personal effort as you indicate, one is relegated from "elitist" before to "smug" now. One day in the future a recrui…

Post by speeder » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 4:02 PM UTC

drdaeman wrote: post #281

guessmyname wrote: post #8

This reminds me of the long conversations that I used to have with family members and friends several years ago. With their continuous requests to create my own Facebook profile so I can keep in contact with them and with their activities as well as to share my whereabouts. I always used the same argument to reject these suggestions — "I don't want Facebook to have too much data about me, more than the data that you…

> I have always refused to send that type of images/videos/audios Isn't it still trivial to self-host stuff? Just send a link to picture (or document or whatever confidential information you want to share) to a password-protected resource on your own server (or even a laptop or desktop machine, if you have globally routeable IP address there). Facebook automation is not that smart to grab the password from the very s…

Post by Kequc » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 4:18 PM UTC

speedplane wrote: post #287

Kequc wrote: post #109

Storage costs next to nothing, recovery costs a lot. Why would facebook who depends on this data for income ever delete it. You get two massive benefits from keeping it and setting a "deleted" flag. Why would anyone expect anything different. How entitled do people feel they are.

It's quite simple: if someone says they deleted something, you expect them to delete it. If they don't, they are lying, and you can't really trust them with anything else.

Post by lanmannen » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 4:34 PM UTC

speedplane wrote: post #283

noobermin wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Allow me to ask the obvious question. Who doesn't do the something like this? Not to alleviate facebook of blame, but who's to say data on almost every other social media service isn't also just flagged for deletion?

> Not to alleviate facebook of blame, but who's to say data on almost every other social media service isn't also just flagged for deletion? The word "delete" has a pretty clear definition to most users. Facebook is one of the most used pieces of software in the world. If FB is allowed to lie to its users, it would indeed give a pass to just about every social media service out there. The reason Facebook is special,…

Post by digi_owl » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 4:48 PM UTC

noobermin wrote: post #176

dividuum wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am sure that the deletion of media files in services like Facebook has never meant to be absolute. Many of my colleagues believe the same thing that I believe: Facebook and other services do not actually delete data, they just mark it as "deleted" and purge it only if they need the space. No reason to believe. You can read about the storage architecture used to store photos from a post in 2009 here: https://code.…

Allow me to ask the obvious question. Who doesn't do the something like this? Not to alleviate facebook of blame, but who's to say data on almost every other social media service isn't also just flagged for deletion?