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I perma-deleted my Facebook account last week. Whatever the motivation of this acquisition, Facebook simply doesn't appear to do enough to look after my privac
by transmit101 17y ago
I perma-deleted my Facebook account last week.
Whatever the motivation of this acquisition, Facebook simply doesn't appear to do enough to look after my privacy, especially given the personal and sometimes sensitive nature of the data they are handling.
The notion that they want to expand into online payments and banking is laughable without a dramatic rethink of their approach to data.
For a company which built their reputation on protecting their users' privacy to follow the path it has is tantamount to business suicide.
- ohashi 17y agoYou think facebook actually deleted your information?
- Groxx 17y agoWhen you cancel the account, they just mark it as cancelled. Your login still works, and if you do log back in, it reactivates everything.
- sern 17y agoThere's also a perma-delete a couple of levels deep in the help system that will deactivate your account forever. (Like deactivation, it probably doesn't delete anything, though.)
- pz 17y agoCan you be more specific about how FB is lax with your data? I mean, first and foremost, they don't sell data, which is more than you can say for a lot of other companies. Secondly they provide extensive control over the privacy of various parts of your profile. Facebook is way more privacy conscious than other companies, so I just don't see the foundation for your criticism. FWIW, i used to work at Spock, which was a "people search engine". Spock harvested a lot of data from social networks and FB was a nut we never cracked.