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No doubt Facebook would delete these posts permanently and DMCA them.
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Lots of people in this thread are claiming that it doesn't based on gut feeling, but consider: - Facebook publicly claims it does [1] - Mark Zuckerberg testified in-front of congress and stated they do [2] - Multiple government regulators have specifically checked that it does in their privacy audits. [3] They might be lying and actively conspiring to not delete it, but they'd have to have a very good reason to take…
Was the nature of deletion explicitly defined as "deleted records are removed from all databases, data warehouses included"? They technically wouldn't be lying if they only deleted the record from application systems, but retained it in historical data by simply setting a bit flag (eg "IsDeleted") to 1. The question about what motive they have comes down to whether or not the types of posts a person deletes indicate…
"In determining appropriate retention periods for personal information, data controllers can have due regard to any statutory obligations to retain data. However, if the purpose for which the information was obtained has ceased and the personal information is no longer required for that purpose, the data must be deleted or disposed of in a secure manner. Full and irrevocable anonymisation would achieve the same objective." (Page 69, under 3.4 Retention)
So basically, as long as it's anonymised, the data can be retained.
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Lots of people in this thread are claiming that it doesn't based on gut feeling, but consider: - Facebook publicly claims it does [1] - Mark Zuckerberg testified in-front of congress and stated they do [2] - Multiple government regulators have specifically checked that it does in their privacy audits. [3] They might be lying and actively conspiring to not delete it, but they'd have to have a very good reason to take…
Facebook don't need to keep your past posts, their algorithms have already run the data. The real question is whether you can reset the "personas" they assign to you....
What do you think the chances are that Facebook actually does any delete operation on their data? I'm sure this is simply marking it as hidden in their database. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but to me the only way to take back something you say on social media, is to never have posted it in the first place.
So every day she just took a minute to the cringiest of that 1/365th of her content and in just one year she was free.
Alternatively, my friend turned on the "on this day" feature that would send her a notification every day of what she did on facebook for that day of the year. So every day she just took a minute to the cringiest of that 1/365th of her content and in just one year she was free.
I don't trust the "delete" button to scrub it from FB's database. I'd be slightly more confident ( slightly ) that editing the post might cause the core data in the db to be updated, however. In which case, I think the more effective script would be one that goes through all of your FB posts and scrambles them, or replaces the text with gibberish.
[0] https://github.com/x89/Shreddit
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/1dhw2j/reddits_privac...
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It's likely they have an ML "recommender" model that was built off of your history, but doesn't actually store the history nor is it reverse engineer-able. Once you hit a certain threshold of activity or time duration, the model will probably rebuild.
This is a big reason I view the new “we’ll automatically delete your data!” Crap as disingenuous at best. They’ve already learned everything from the data in a few hours, it’s useless after that anyhow.
Users want to delete watch history, which they can. Classifier models predicting what you want to watch are not the video watch history, nor are the models capable of producing it.