If they ever reactivate my account, there's not much left to see.
By the way, I thought quitting Facebook was going to be hard. But I haven't regretted it a second. Same thing with Whatsapp.
Facebook/WhatsApp is a gold mine for the NSA and the CIA (as well as others). I would be surprised if they ever deleted any data when you "update" a field. It seems far more likely that they keep 100% of all data ever entered and just display the latest entry of your "update history".
Also "deletion" and "processing" are very vaguely defined terms. Data can be made inaccessible while complying with deletion, but more importantly data can be abstracted in a manner that it is accessible but still compliant with the right to be forgotten.
I've worked on a few solutions for deep analytics this past year specifically designed to keep the data while being 100% compliant with the silly GDPR regulations including the right for erasure.
This is deleting data that you have contributed yourself.
Any data you have submitted, you have to be able to revoke, and get removed.
The new EU privacy regulation is the GDPR and it has a data deletion clause but it's not absolute.
There is no EU law that mandates hard deletion of data.
Member states can have stricter laws but the two I am familiar with which are the DPA (U.K.) and BDSG (Germany) also do not mandate it.
There is also no definition of data you've submitted or data that has been collected only consent to store and or process data.
This is not something new and surprising, this has been long discussed.
https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/3-502-4080?transi...
it's terrible ux for security, it could have been much more transparent and actually encouraging proper security behaviour.
(Disclaimer: I'm a bit biased though since I'm affiliated with Threema. I think privacy in day to day communication is very important though, that was my reason for quitting.)
Since Facebook accounts can be easily reactivated by accident, or phantom causes as users here pointed out, I would next time use a tool that sent a message to each friend explaining the situation before deletion.
Says volumes about how social media manipulates people with things that don't matter one whit IRL.
that's Facebook's toxic behaviour right there. it's disgusting! purposefully (yes) driving a wedge and animosity between me and my friends because I dared to do something that you / your platform doesn't like?? fuck that. I've broken (irl) contact with people who (consistently) tried that.
this is textbook toxic behaviour and psychological manipulation, how does anyone put up with this shit.
Worse still, they've gone out of their way to make this as difficult as possible. There's no bulk delete in any of their apps or API. We all know why.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fbook-post-manager...
Of course, even if you leave out the E2E encryption, it's still about as secure as Telegram's default settings. And with E2E encryption, it should be about as secure as Signal is (I'm not a cryptographer, though, so take this with a grain of salt). However, if the user is not experienced with key verification, I'd always recommend Signal over Riot.
Agree. But that part is still alpha in current release, so I hope they will improve over time.
I don't think anyone has logged in, since none of the details have been changed.
I logged in again and re-deleted it. But I somehow doubt it's actually gone.
However, 7 years seems like a long time span for Spammers to wait and revive that data.
You could try to use the report button and say it's a fake profile.
[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/recently-checked-myspace-account/