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Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by Insanity »

nneonneo wrote: post #3

Have 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.

Conspiracy theory: It was facebook pretending to hack is account so he would log back in and hopefully stay using the service.

But OT: I'm sure that unless they are legally forced to remove the data, they'd rather keep it.

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Post by gberger »

nathantotten wrote: post #4
Artemis2 wrote: post #2

Quite 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.

How is "European customer" defined?

If someone is not European but resides in Europe, do they have this right?

If someone not from Europe travels to Europe and issues the request while inside Europe, do they have this right? (If so, would using a VPN work?)

Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by hardwaresofton »

[EDIT] - I missed a key point, the author does say in the article that they deleted their account long ago.

While I'm all for bashing Facebook when they do something nefarious, this seems more to do with someone else having the author's password and using their account at an inopportune time (during the FB account deletion process).

As a refresher for all:

- FB delete != FB deactivate

- You can't log in (or let anyone else log in) for 2 weeks post FB delete through https://m.facebook.com/help/delete_account

- The only way you can be sure they delete your info is if you're in the EU, where the government has stepped in appropriately.

Facebook will very likely still know who you are, and have tons of information/"shadow profile" on you, because your friends will still post stuff there.

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Post by Twisell »

Actually I think that an extra step is required to fully "delete" while the standard procedure only "deactivate" accounts.

I've permanently delete back in 2014 but actually needed a "ghost account" in 2016 to access some FB walled garden content.

I used the same email as my former one and data was gone, no restauration was proposed. (However friend suggestion based on email showed up due to some probable shadow account).

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Post by stupidcar »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #16

[EDIT] - I missed a key point, the author does say in the article that they deleted their account long ago. While I'm all for bashing Facebook when they do something nefarious, this seems more to do with someone else having the author's password and using their account at an inopportune time (during the FB account deletion process). As a refresher for all: - FB delete != FB deactivate - You can't log in (or let anyon…

He explicitly says that he deleted his FB account "long ago". So this isn't about somebody interrupting the deletion process, it's about FB keeping the account around, ready to be "reactivated", even after the 2 weeks.

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Post by SKYRHO_ »

It's been a while (6-8months) since I DELETED my account, but I do remember separate options for delete vs deactivation. Out of curiosity I tried logging in again and received "email you have entered does not match any account". While I'm sure the account exists somewhere in the facebook database, it appears to have been successfully deleted.

Anyone else have similar results?

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