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> Eventually I went to delete and used a link from deletefacebook.com taking me straight to the right page. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know whether by
by eighthnate 9y ago
> Eventually I went to delete and used a link from deletefacebook.com taking me straight to the right page.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know whether by "deleting" your account, facebook removes your account/data completely or do they just mark your account deleted?
Is facebook required to remove your account from all data sources ( dbs, failover sites, recovery sites and even the backup tapes )?
I know certain sites, when you "delete" your account, it just updates a column marking your account "deleted" or "inactive".
But I'm most curious about the backup tapes of logs/data.
- dnel 9y agoI don't know how certain we can really be, I had the same concerns myself, I could just keep my account disabled and stop feeding information to Facebook but still keep access to it myself if I ever needed it. Or I delete my account, Facebook maybe has access to that data but I do not, it was a thought process that delayed my action for a while. This non-committal situation created some anxiety for me, it was a decision that still needed to be made in my mind so wouldn't go away. Then Bryan Lunduke went through the process on his YouTube channel and he claims his contacts at Facebook were unable to find his data once it was deleted, so that was good enough to push me off the fence and I finally made the decision to delete. I can never be absolutely certain but there's really not much more I can do besides use European privacy laws to try and force the issue, but that probably won't do much about the NSA backup. ;) But my mind is at rest now, I don't worry about it apart from doing my best to limit tracking online but that's another story.