Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users

Re:Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Face... by beeskneecaps on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:40PM (#30103511)

I've heard that Facebook doesn't actually hard-delete any information, so odds are that when support gets back to you sometime this year, they'll have admin tools that will allow them to reactivate the group.

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Re:Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Face... by metalised on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:43PM (#30103554)

I hope so!

(both what you say, and that Facebook support actually gets back to me sometime this year!)

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Re:Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Face... by londons_explore on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:43PM (#30103553)

I don't think this is an ability Facebook support has. Engineering could probably do it, but I doubt you're going to be able to get this issue on their radar.

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Re:Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Face... by aliher1911 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:16PM (#30104854)

Keeping the data for European users after deletion would be in breach of GDPR, so Facebook does delete data after some grace period. It doesn't necessarily mean physically removing files, but you can do other things like storing data at rest encrypted with with an account unique key and then removing the key when account is deleted.

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