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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by HatchedLake721 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:28AM (#26710579)
Did you deactivate or delete your facebook account?

As I understand, deactivation is temporary, deletion erases all data.

But if people did delete their accounts and Facebook didn't erase the private data, aren't there consequences to this?

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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by arcturus17 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:54AM (#26710747)
> As I understand, deactivation is temporary, deletion erases all data

That's the problem, what we or regulators understand may well be very different to what actually happens

> aren't there consequences to this

A slap on the wrist at best, I'd bet my house on it

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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by snarfy on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:31AM (#26710976)
'Erases' all data, or sets the is_deleted flag.
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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by drcongo on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:22PM (#26715445)
Full delete. I was very careful about it at the time.
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