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  • @[email protected]
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    54 months ago

    If you realy want to delete your data, try a client like redact.dev that batch overwrites all your posts and pictures.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      And if you attempt to sign back in, or open anything that auto signs you in, it will cancel the 30 day countdown to delete and restore your account.

  • deadcatbounce
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    4 months ago

    “Your” content? I seem to remember that everything you post is their (meta’s) content.

    Why would they delete their own content?

    • @[email protected]
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      4 months ago

      Where did you get that information from? Their ToS say nothing like that. Stop spreading fake news.

      When you delete your account as a European they are legally required to delete everything associated with you or that you created.

      Please don’t spread fake news without providing a source.

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          4 months ago

          Bad source. This is not even the European ToS (it’s VERY different) and the information listed on it isn’t referenced like at all. It’s like asking ChatGPT for an answer.

          It’s European law that your personal content gets deleted or completely deanonymized. The latter is in most cases obviously not possible with Facebook or Instagram posts.

  • UristMcHolland
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    14 months ago

    I went without Facebook for about 7 years. I went through the account deletion process. After meeting my now wife, she wanted to be able to send me stuff she sees on there. W/E I’ll just use my old email address and spin up a new account… Low and behold, my account was still there… I went through and manually deleted all of my posts, chats, liked pages, everything. My account is now just a place for my wife to share reels.

    I don’t like Facebook but I have found it convenient to be able to use the marketplace again.

      • @[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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          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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          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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        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.

  • @[email protected]
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    254 months ago

    They need the data to train theur AI. They will not delete. They may glag that the account is now deleted and add this to the data fed to the AI.

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        4 months ago

        It is illegal if you send a delete request.

        The question is here, if ‘delete account’ is the same as asking Meta to delete all data in the regard of GDPR. My guess is, its not.

        There’s also no way they will retrain their AI without your data, just because you told them to.

        • @[email protected]
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          74 months ago

          Are you from the EU? We have an entirely different UI than the US. We get additional options. When you request to delete your account and all the data it gets deleted. I’m confident of that. The EU has given very expensive fines for much less than that.

          • Robust Mirror
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            134 months ago

            GDPR permits anonymizing data instead of deleting it, provided anonymization is irreversible. They’re keeping it one way or another. They don’t need to know who the data belongs to to feed it to an AI.

            • @[email protected]
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              It’s going to be really difficult to anonymize personal posts. FB and Instagram posts often include personal information. Feeding it to AI isn’t going to help as someone might find a way to reproduce it with queries and they get in trouble.

              • Robust Mirror
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                14 months ago

                I find it hard to believe any given post would have enough information to link it back to a specific person when viewed in isolation. Even “I’m Mary and going to visit my friend Sarah in New York City.” isn’t going to tell you who that belongs to if the profile and history itself is gone. It would have to be ridiculously detailed and all contained within a single post to actually reliably point to a specific person.

                Containing personal information in general and even having an AI spit it out (which good luck, that’s not really how LLM work unless there’s something SUPER niche that essentially only you have spoken about) isn’t enough to say it isn’t anonymized. You also have to show it could specifically be linked to you by other people, in other words, that it can be de-anonymized.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      They don’t need the data perpetually to train their AI. Just dump it once into the black box and be done with it - no need to save it for even a second. Of course, if they want to train and re-train, and perhaps build ad profiles, that’s a different matter.