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Seriously, after 5 years they still have your account information? Are they completely nuts?
I was worried it had been hacked and activated by someone so I logged back in. Nope, so turned off the emails and "deactivated" it again.
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and at the bottom of the page: > You can also try other challenges to confirm your identity.
The identity challenge does not matter: you shouldn't have to confirm your identity to protest against the reactivation of an account you intended to close. The point still stands: OP intended to close their account in 2012, and are now being signed up again without their consent.
What would the alternative be? Allow anyone to request that an account is deleted? Facebook needs some form of verification due to the password being breached (and its great that they are checking for that sort of thing)
Requiring the same standard of verification for activating an account. Of course, they want to make it easy so it's unlikely to happen...
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They aren't aware of suspicious activity because they think OP reactivated his own account!
So supposedly OP was allowed to reactivate the account without any hassle at all, but then to actually sign in ID has to be shown? That is even more ridiculous since that just leaves the account in a limbo state for no reason at all. Should have asked for ID prior to reactivating if going down that road.
Try to think about it without all that negative mindset. Someone quite obviously obtained the (careless) author's password from a leaked user database of another site. They used it to log on to FB and reactivate the account. That isn't suspicious, because the last login IP address FB had is 5+ years old and having a different one now is not unlikely. Then, the author logged on with his IP address - which was suspicious to FB, because they thought the legitimate owner of the account had recently logged on using a different IP address (perhaps even from a different country). In addition, it took him several attempts to get the password right. Therefore, they demanded some ID.
Seriously, after 5 years they still have your account information? Are they completely nuts?
On Facebook, there's a difference between "deleting" and "deactivating" your account. OP did the latter, in which case it stays in the DB but is made invisible to everyone else. All you have to do to make it a normal, visible account again is simply log in. Deleting is a different matter.
Edit: just saw that was done. Let them play their stupid game like they're important.
Does power hungry Mr Z thinks he's some kind of police to ask for a photo id?
If necessary, I'll pull a Data Protection Act request on these goons.
FB should provide backup/restore functionality for account data and delete accounts after N months of inactivity. They should require e-mail confirmation for logins after N weeks of inactivity and any suspicious logins. The author of the article is lucky that he still owns his geocities.com e-mail address, many such old domains have been sold and re-used.
Inactive/Dead accounts are useful for bragging with account numbers, but for users they're just a risk and burden.
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The identity challenge does not matter: you shouldn't have to confirm your identity to protest against the reactivation of an account you intended to close. The point still stands: OP intended to close their account in 2012, and are now being signed up again without their consent.
Of course you should. Else anybody can close accounts that have been purposely reopened.