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A comment on Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it.

Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by Velox on Monday March 27, 2017 @02:34AM (#13965601)
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)
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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by xmattx on Monday March 27, 2017 @02:53AM (#13965659)
Additionally, the only info they need is your name, birthday and photo. Anything else can be blocked out. I don't really consider that 'giving them my government issued id'.
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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by JasuM on Monday March 27, 2017 @03:29AM (#13965790)
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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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by wodenokoto on Monday March 27, 2017 @05:37AM (#13966231)
If he knew his password he could deactivate the account using the same standard of verification as was used for reactivating it.
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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by djrogers on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:32AM (#13968551)
He does know it, but Facebook is requiring that he change it before deleting his account.
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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by SippinLean on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:05AM (#13967337)
>Allow anyone to request that an account is deleted?

"anyone" with the proper access credentials?

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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by jmcdiesel on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:09AM (#13967801)
When said credentials have been leaked elsewhere, they aren't "proper" anymore.
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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by bigbugbag on Monday March 27, 2017 @06:34AM (#13966482)
The alternative would be to actually delete the account as it should have happened in the first place when the user requested it years ago.
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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by mimi89999 on Monday March 27, 2017 @02:42AM (#13965620)
Send a verification email as for a lost password?
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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by a3_nm on Monday March 27, 2017 @05:28AM (#13966199)
The alternative would have been for Facebook to close the account in 2012, as the user wanted.
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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by adam12 on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:36AM (#13967560)
> What would the alternative be?

Not to re-activate an old account without email re-verification.

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