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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by NuDinNou on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:06AM (#14416328)
> Facebook is NOT a backup. If you only keep stuff in your Facebook account

That's not what a back up is. Facebook can be a backup for your photos.

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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by pmlnr on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:39AM (#14416446)
> Facebook can be a backup for your photos.

Nonsense. Try getting the originals out of Facebook.

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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by lmm on Thursday May 25, 2017 @07:42AM (#14416685)
Easy enough if you're in the EU, where we have laws about this sort of thing.
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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by Crespyl on Thursday May 25, 2017 @09:43AM (#14417210)
That seems strange. Is there a law mandating that all image hosts allow recovering the exact original image?

That seems... impractical for a lot of use cases.

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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by lmm on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:18AM (#14417438)
No, any organization that stores personal data has to allow you to recover that data though.
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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by rexpop on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:20AM (#14417854)
https://www.facebook.com/settings > Download a copy of your Facebook data.
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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by rootusrootus on Thursday May 25, 2017 @04:47PM (#14420040)
Just did exactly that. Thanks!
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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by ivanche on Thursday May 25, 2017 @09:06AM (#14417026)
It can't be. Try to upload some hi-res photo and then download it from FB. Now check the resolution of that downloaded photo.
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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by kodt on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:05AM (#14417353)
Try as I might, I have had a very difficult time explaining to people that trying to print a photo you uploaded to Facebook or sent via text is not going to turn out well.
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