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GDPR includes the "Right to Erasure"/"Right to be Forgotten." After May 25, they are actually required to delete your data, not just a "soft delete."
by lmkg 9y ago
GDPR includes the "Right to Erasure"/"Right to be Forgotten." After May 25, they are actually required to delete your data, not just a "soft delete."
- netsharc 9y agoFWIW, Zuckerbot said before congress that if you request deletion, your data will actually be deleted, and I doubt he would dare lie to congress. Then again, it's American congress, and what's the stat, how many of those congresspeople has he "donated" to?
- npizzolato 9y agoEh, you can choose to believe Zuckerberg here. I personally have no faith Facebook will voluntarily permanently delete someone's data when they close an account. They have shown very little prior behavior that would lead me to find his statements on this to be trustworthy.
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- lostlogin 9y agoGoogle ‘Zuckerberg lie to congress’. You’ll find that there were plenty of statements that were on the line, crossed it or omitted key detail. Saying ‘I don’t know’ is also a lie if you do know, and there was a lot of that. https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/mark-zuckerberg-is-either-ignorant-deliberately-misleading-congress-or-both/ https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/mark-zuckerberg-is-eithe...
- bergoid 9y ago> I doubt he would dare lie to congress He wasn't under oath so the stakes for lying aren't too bad.
- reaperducer 9y agoMay 25 at 12:01am - Facebook violates GDPR, and the EU has no way of knowing it or enforcing it. The more I hear about this, the more the "GDPR" seems like mere "PR."
- kenning 9y agoWhat's more likely, that the EU wants good PR and hopes that nobody will notice they're not accomplishing anything, or that they're representing their constituents by making widely popular policies and putting the onus on violators to supply them with evidence of compliance?
- CalRobert 9y agoOne whistleblower could do the trick. Plenty of FB staff in Europe.
- reaperducer 9y agoWhy not both?
- toephu2 9y agoWho will be auditing Facebook to do this though? Is the EU going to hire the Big4 in the U.S. to do this? Who is going to pay for that?
- Matticus_Rex 9y agoThey'll be required to do this after May 25th regardless of when you deleted the account. All personal information is in scope of the law, not just personal information of people who were customers after the enforcement date.