Isn't 'delete' a bit misleading? The page does not say that whey would delete your data, only 'account'.
How to permanently delete your Facebook account
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Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account
#112The irony here that it's harder to delete your HN account and all your comments
HN has anonymous accounts and personally identifiable information can be hidden or removed by the user, which to me has the same effect. HN complains to me that I cannot reset my pwd if I ever forget it because I didn't even share my mail. People often claim anonymous platforms are doomed to fail but I think social media is the main problem currently.
I changed my HN username earlier this year for reasons.
However if you search HN via the Algolia search link at the bottom of this page, you can still find my old posts under my old username.
Not to mention the 1,000s of self-hosted HN scrapers out there.
Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could have written this comment word for word. People get _offended_ when you tell them that you don't have Whatsapp. But I let them hold that hot coal themselves.
This is so strange, no one in my social circle uses WhatsApp or has ever asked me to use it to talk to them. It’s all iMessage, Snapchat, and a growing group of people on Signal.
In the UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, etc), it's almost impossible to live without WhatsApp since almost every business does customer support using it.
Want to get a delivery? You'll be told about it via WhatsApp. Want to order food online? WhatsApp. Want to pick up your laundry? WhatsApp. etc. It's everywhere here and totally dominant. Deciding not to use it would make your life significantly harder.
Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account
#114The situation is quite interesting here. - Imagine, you're living outside of USA/UK/Europe. - Formally, it's possible to proceed with "Permanently delete my account". - You will even receive email assuring you that two weeks later profile would be completely deleted. - Then, couple years later you'll occasionally seen email from facebook that someone tried to log in into your ("permanently deleted") account. - You'll…
//Imagine, you're living outside of USA/UK/Europe. Are you saying that Facebook doesn’t enable full account delete outside of countries that require it by law?
I don't know
- whether they partially disable functions on purpose
- or there are region-dependant backend code errors.
Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account
#115The situation is quite interesting here. - Imagine, you're living outside of USA/UK/Europe. - Formally, it's possible to proceed with "Permanently delete my account". - You will even receive email assuring you that two weeks later profile would be completely deleted. - Then, couple years later you'll occasionally seen email from facebook that someone tried to log in into your ("permanently deleted") account. - You'll…
I live in Ireland. A while after GDPR came into effect, I went about deleted a Microsoft account I didn't use anymore. Deleted it on the site, contacted support to request all data be wiped. Done. About 3 years later I get an email that it was accessed and they disabled it for illegal activity. Deleted it in the site, contacted support to request all data be wiped. Honestly think it's more worthwhile to just change the account info to garbage and leave it
Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account
#116The situation is quite interesting here. - Imagine, you're living outside of USA/UK/Europe. - Formally, it's possible to proceed with "Permanently delete my account". - You will even receive email assuring you that two weeks later profile would be completely deleted. - Then, couple years later you'll occasionally seen email from facebook that someone tried to log in into your ("permanently deleted") account. - You'll…
Nobody seems to remember the time back when FaceBook forced everyone on the platform to use their real name... It was exactly the point their plan to gather data matured I believe.
This is also why many sites and apps offer verification programs as well in my understanding... Verifying a user's ID has been a practices for ages now, but it did nothing to stop the growth of disinformation because that's not what verification was for IMO.
An unregulated private company asking you for official government documentation and your real name is definitely tracking you in my opinion. Even friends commenting with your name and family associations/connections on your account can easily ID everyone.
They are not a government agency with the authority to ask people for government ID, but somehow they convinced everyone to use their real name, and it didn't stop the decay of conduct decorum on the platform, it only served to track information more accurately.
Even people who have never registered for FB are indexed by them based on tagged photos and in posts that others have made about them using their names.
They also track people based on interactions across other apps entirely not associated with FB... That's IMO why certain sites slowed and faulted mysteriously when their domain went offline.
I am willing to bet that they have a really interesting splunk (or similar tech) dashboard they can look at and search any time they want full of analytics based on almost every human on earth.
Account privacy settings have always been a very ambiguous "shell game" with FB and other social apps, and often do not work properly, what makes anyone think a "delete account" request would ever be honored by such a company that manipulates it's user base?
I also suspect that each of the major social platforms do the same type of info gathering to varying extents as well.
This is some serious "James Bond island cave villain" stuff, and whatever congressional action comes next (if anything does) may tell us where the future is going for our privacy and personal info rights... :|
Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account
#117The situation is quite interesting here. - Imagine, you're living outside of USA/UK/Europe. - Formally, it's possible to proceed with "Permanently delete my account". - You will even receive email assuring you that two weeks later profile would be completely deleted. - Then, couple years later you'll occasionally seen email from facebook that someone tried to log in into your ("permanently deleted") account. - You'll…
I live in Ireland. A while after GDPR came into effect, I went about deleted a Microsoft account I didn't use anymore. Deleted it on the site, contacted support to request all data be wiped. Done. About 3 years later I get an email that it was accessed and they disabled it for illegal activity. Deleted it in the site, contacted support to request all data be wiped. Honestly think it's more worthwhile to just change t…
You cannot be quite sure
- that someone who takes over your "garbage" account
- could fake someone else (on your behalf)
- with a traces on corporate servers that will lead authorities to you in the future.
It might be highly unlikely to happen, though.
Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account
#118So here is an idea about deleting accounts. Usually people may want to undo it sometime but if it's deleted it is deleted.
One of the things required by the GDPR is a way to export your data and even import it (article 20, right to portability). So you should implement a way to do that.
Then when users ask to delete their account, create an export, encrypt it with a one-time use key which you mail to the user, store this encrypted dump and remove the rest of the data. Now if the deletion was an error the user can get their key in their email and get their account reinstated. And no one in your company can access the data in the meantime.
Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could have written this comment word for word. People get _offended_ when you tell them that you don't have Whatsapp. But I let them hold that hot coal themselves.
This is so strange, no one in my social circle uses WhatsApp or has ever asked me to use it to talk to them. It’s all iMessage, Snapchat, and a growing group of people on Signal.
I tried to precipiate a shift away from Whatsapp the last time they did a privacy grab a year or two ago. But so many people use it for group messaging. The gravity around Whatsapp is enough to prevent people swapping to Signal in my circles.
Now I've got so many messaging apps. I just want one. Only one.
(based in the UK)
Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account
#120Faster shortcuts: https://deletefacebook.com/ https://deleteinstagram.com/ It's probably by design, but from experience most people will need non-trivial discipline/hacks to get around the 30 day window and avoid reflexively logging in. Would be curious to know how many people who try deleting their accounts follow through to the end
I deleted mine 2 years ago, and definitely followed through on it. Once it was done, it was absolutely zero problem to have it out of my life. The only thing I’m curious about though, is what would happen if I try to login again. I’m terrified to even try, for fear that somehow it wasn’t actually deleted even though that’s exactly what I did. Update: I decided to finally try logging in and thankfully it said it could…
If your email has ever appeared in any breaches, your account probably has had many login attempts.