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      • @[email protected]
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        284 months ago

        Unless someone feels like breaking into a datacenter (and likely several cold backup facilities) and mechanically wiping data, that shit is there forever. Facebook deletes nothing.

        • @[email protected]
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          214 months ago

          “Never Delete Anything” is Standard at every place I’ve worked. What happens is that anything that is requested to be deleted is simply marked as “Deleted” in the database.

          • @[email protected]
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            84 months ago

            Not to discredit or counterpoint what you’re saying… But in some jurisdictions, that’s illegal. As an example, California RTA/RTF laws make it a requirement that some data should be deleted unless there’s a different legal standard requiring the data be kept. Enforcement? Who knows?

            • @[email protected]
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              4 months ago

              Even Reddit doesn’t delete your post(data) when you delete your account. You will have to do it. Yourself first, of you have hundreds of posts or comments

              • Photuris
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                14 months ago

                The Nuke Reddit History Chrome extension is great for this.

                • skulblaka
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                  34 months ago

                  Reddit has a change log of your comments. This does nothing to their underlying data

            • @[email protected]
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              34 months ago

              To add, not deleted stuff is what my favorite lawyers call “discoverable”. Not sure how many lawyers Meta has but I’m betting at least one of them is reminding them deleting stuff is a good thing.

        • @[email protected]
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          64 months ago

          mechanically wiping data

          You mean thermite the drives while the employees are gone for a holiday/lunch?

      • @[email protected]
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        154 months ago

        If your friend is an EU citizen, they might have some luck with a GDPR request to delete all their data.

        They also might not. Meta technically would have to comply, but there is no real way to know if they did.