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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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