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What would the alternative be? Allow anyone to request that an account is deleted? Facebook needs some form of verification due to the password being breached (
by Velox 10y ago
What would the alternative be? Allow anyone to request that an account is deleted? Facebook needs some form of verification due to the password being breached (and its great that they are checking for that sort of thing)
- bigbugbag 10y agoThe alternative would be to actually delete the account as it should have happened in the first place when the user requested it years ago.
- mimi89999 10y agoSend a verification email as for a lost password?
- xmattx 10y agoAdditionally, the only info they need is your name, birthday and photo. Anything else can be blocked out. I don't really consider that 'giving them my government issued id'.
- JasuM 10y agoRequiring the same standard of verification for activating an account. Of course, they want to make it easy so it's unlikely to happen...
- wodenokoto 10y agoIf he knew his password he could deactivate the account using the same standard of verification as was used for reactivating it.
- djrogers 10y agoHe does know it, but Facebook is requiring that he change it before deleting his account.
- a3_nm 10y agoThe alternative would have been for Facebook to close the account in 2012, as the user wanted.
- SippinLean 10y ago>Allow anyone to request that an account is deleted? "anyone" with the proper access credentials?
- jmcdiesel 10y agoWhen said credentials have been leaked elsewhere, they aren't "proper" anymore.
- adam12 10y ago> What would the alternative be? Not to re-activate an old account without email re-verification.