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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by givinguflac on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:16PM (#19965294)
This is a big reason I view the new “we’ll automatically delete your data!” Crap as disingenuous at best. They’ve already learned everything from the data in a few hours, it’s useless after that anyhow.
Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by javagram on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:20PM (#19965327)
A big problem with data is not the company itself using it, but other ways it can come back to bite you.

E.g. a sexual photo retrieved from a private social media album is no threat to your reputation when it’s been assumed into some machine learning model for detecting sexual photos, but it’s certainly a threat if a future data leak allows your enemies to get the actual .PNG or .JPG and send it to the news media or your loved ones. Knowing that the photo can actually be deleted is valuable in this case and I’m sure there are many other similar ones that could be listed.

Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by bduerst on Monday May 20, 2019 @07:56PM (#19966472)
Is that really a problem for users though?

Users want to delete watch history, which they can. Classifier models predicting what you want to watch are not the video watch history, nor are the models capable of producing it.

Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by teddyh on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:59AM (#19968087)
> Classifier models predicting what you want to watch

But that probably is not the only model generated from your data, is it? They probably have many other models generated from your data, everything from ad-displaying models to profiling models for Hydra.