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Re:How to permanently delete your Facebook account by swamp-agr on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:19AM (#28772803)
From data modelling point of view it's a challenge to wipe the user data since it will affect a social graph. And there're different strategies to handle corner cases (e.g. how to deal with reactions/replies on "deleted" comments or with reactions on your photos or your reactions on different news, mark as deleted and wipe the content or completely remove nested graph). And it actually makes user tracking much harder (please keep in mind, they're tracking users that have not register yet, in that case user profile might be converted from one user type to another if they are going to continue track you (why didn't want that?)).

It might be much easier to extend account entity with something like:

- is_deleted (boolean)

- deleted_time (utctime)

- is_suing_us (boolean)

- legal_case_id ...

Re:How to permanently delete your Facebook account by dleslie on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:36AM (#28773664)
This all seems to be problems for them surveillance capitalist, and not the user.
Re:How to permanently delete your Facebook account by avs733 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @11:31AM (#28774353)
exactly...I regularly see arguments about how technical compliance with laws or user wishes as 'its hard' as if 'hard' is a counter argument to compliance...
Re:How to permanently delete your Facebook account by sgregnt on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @11:42AM (#28774484)
Is facebook here different than other apps? If you publically post something on internet, good luck trying to delete it...
Re:How to permanently delete your Facebook account by Nextgrid on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @01:17PM (#28775659)
Facebook collects way more data than what you choose to publish. Not to mention, if you want to delete something, Facebook should delete it. Whether other third-parties archive it is beyond scope.