Facebook announces Clear History feature

Re:Facebook announces Clear History feature by Aaargh20318 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:15AM (#16975212)

> FB could've not done this (at least outside Europe) but chose to do it.

Could they, really ? Would it have made a difference ? You can just log in, change your location to a European country and then delete everything.

> As a contrary example, look at Google or Twitter. They also have to follow GDPR guidelines wrt data erasure from 3rd party sites/apps. THey aren't choosing to offer this functionality outside Europe when, at least in the case of Google, they probably more data than Facebook.

Again, change your location and just delete it anyway. Do you expect them to ask for proof of residence ?

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Re:Facebook announces Clear History feature by code_duck on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:04AM (#16975475)

Possibly. They’ve asked people for images of their IDs before, supposedly to prove they are not using a pseudonym. I wouldn’t be surprised if they asked you to confirm your location for something drastic and not-desired-by-fb such as account and data deletion.

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Re:Facebook announces Clear History feature by krageon on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:57AM (#16984797)

They will not ask for location like that, because it wouldn't make a difference - EU citizens in a non-EU part of the world still have the rights outlined in the GDPR.

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