Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe

Re:Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe by jackgolding on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:11PM (#17197436)

Hypothetically, if you have EU citizenship by ancestry you would be protected under GDPR. If you have this but have never been to Europe, how is Facebook able to determine that from a US IP you aren't eligible to delete your account under GDPR? (i.e. a true delete rather than their fake delete)

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Re:Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe by hellofunk on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:24PM (#17197580)

I think you are talking about the reverse -- how can FB know you are just an American visiting Europe vs. one actually living there? Because in the latter case, you are covered under GDPR but I don't think you are under the first one.

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Re:Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe by jackgolding on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:55PM (#17197907)

GDPR covers EU residents so you don't need to be a citizen (i.e. you could travel to EU and delete all your data) - see chapter 1 "your company is established outside the EU but offers goods or services to, or monitors the behaviour of, individuals within the EU."

EDIT: reading a bit more seems that some companies think that its only when a data subject has data processed within the EU (i.e. they data subject is in the EU) or the data processing is done in the EU.

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Re:Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe by icedchai on Thursday May 31, 2018 @02:34PM (#17198840)

How do we know they do anything different for either way? We don't. Maybe they just "true delete" all accounts.

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Re:Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe by hellofunk on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:07AM (#17204511)

> How do we know they do anything different for either way?

Because FB has said they will not roll out the data policies in Europe to the rest of the world.

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Re:Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe by icedchai on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:56AM (#17204815)

They can "say" anything.

There's no way to tell whether they "true delete" or "soft delete" accounts.

From an engineering perspective, it would make little sense to differentiate EU from elsewhere.

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Re:Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe by hellofunk on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:00AM (#17204837)

> From an engineering perspective, it would make little sense to differentiate EU from elsewhere.

But from a business perspective, it would make a tremendous amount of sense.

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