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Re:How Facebook handles account deletions by woweeeee on Friday March 23, 2018 @02:56PM (#16661462)
They likely never delete anything. They simply transform you back into a "shadow profile" and keep monetizing everything they know, but conceal the data from you and the rest of the public.

I believe they always retain all data forever, as a trade secret. They don't need no stinking laws to do that.

This is a component of not requiring users to pay for premium service. When you "create an account" you're simply "activating/linking/merging" one of your shadow profiles to your IRL identity (or not-so-IRL personas), which (possibly) has always existed (long before you showed up), claiming it as yours, and publicly exposing whatever Facebook is willing to show you that they know about you/that persona/whoever.

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Re:How Facebook handles account deletions by unicornporn on Friday March 23, 2018 @04:50PM (#16662532)
> They likely never delete anything. They simply transform you back into a "shadow profile" and keep monetizing everything they know, but conceal the data from you and the rest of the public.

If they stick to those habits with European users post May 25, GDPR will mess them up pretty bad. It would require just one whistle blower to expose their wrongdoings.

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Re:How Facebook handles account deletions by toomuchtodo on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:39PM (#16662828)
European citizens/residents, we're all counting on you to do your part.
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Re:How Facebook handles account deletions by gruez on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:19PM (#16661689)
>I believe they always retain all data forever, as a trade secret. They don't need no stinking laws to do that.

GDPR?

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Re:How Facebook handles account deletions by jakeogh on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:41PM (#16662842)
Odd to see people begging for what is ultimately an incremental attack on their own ability to remember things.
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Re:How Facebook handles account deletions by globuous on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:25PM (#16663869)
"your liberty stops where others' begin" they say...
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Re:How Facebook handles account deletions by woweeeee on Saturday March 24, 2018 @01:20PM (#16667663)
Many of us have a lot of things we’d rather forget.
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Re:How Facebook handles account deletions by r00fus on Friday March 23, 2018 @04:04PM (#16662160)
Is this compliant with GDPR? Could the US or other legislative bodies simply enact a law and say "do what you're doing in the EU over here"?
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