How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes

Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by plopilop on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:53AM (#16696376)

I don't think it's the case yet. GDPR will enforce the right to be forgotten and as such truly delete data about you, but other than that, I don't think there are other regulations forcing you to delete data.

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Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by asfdsfggtfd on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:17AM (#16696649)

This is why I said as of ?may?. The GDPR comes into force this year.

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Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by jjeaff on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:58AM (#16698780)

I'm not familiar with the specifics of the law, but my guess would be that it does not require that something be deleted upon any delete button click. I would assume it requires full deletion when requested through proper channels.

There are plenty of cases where a system would not function correctly if you are actually erasing DB entries when a user clicks the delete button. In many cases, even the users themselves might expect to be able to undo or go to a delete list and see entries that were deleted.

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Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by some_account on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:30PM (#16709707)

At my company, I heard them discussing deleting the data the user requested within 1 month.

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Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by plopilop on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:55AM (#16698737)

Oh, my bad, I misunderstood your sentence.

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