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I do wonder how EU's "right to be forgotten" comes into the play here. Could it be used in your case?

segfaultbuserr 8y ago
First, to my knowledge, there are two alternative ways to recover my account within the Facebook system. 1. Correctly identify some personal information about your Facebook friends, or ask them to provide some information about you. However, I have abandoned my account for years, and clearly I no longer have personal contact with most of them. 2. Provide your National-ID document to Facebook. Obviously, I'm not comfortable with it, but I assume my identity is already public information on Facebook so I may have to do it. Unfortunately, the bigger problem is that, personally, I'm in the middle of some tricky paperwork problem with the government bureaucracy, just like my Facebook account. I may need to go to the court to sort it out, but currently I don't have time to bother. "Right to be forgotten" and GDPR seems to be a powerful tool to solve these kind of problems, but I'm not a EU citizen and I don't know much about its regulations, but I also want to know about it. Does anyone know something about it? Assuming I'm a EU citizen, how exactly, can I submit a request of information removal? If it's similar to DMCA takedowns, perhaps it can be used? Or it need a rigorous legal proof of identity like (2)? For non-EU citizens, is there a similar outlet to solve these kinds of problems?
ajnin 8y ago
Eu's GDPR defines several rights and obligations, one of which is : Personal data shall be [...] accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay (‘accuracy’); OP could contact Facebook's Data Protection Officer, that they are required to have, and demand that his data is fixed. A complaint can also be filed to the relevant country's Data Protection Authority if needed (I've done it with some success).
- Jolter 8y ago
  But how will he verify that he actually is the person who owns the account? Well, in this case, he still owns the email so it should work.

First, to my knowledge, there are two alternative ways to recover my account within the Facebook system. 1. Correctly identify some personal information about your Facebook friends, or ask them to provide some information about you. However, I have abandoned my account for years, and clearly I no longer have personal contact with most of them. 2. Provide your National-ID document to Facebook. Obviously, I'm not comfortable with it, but I assume my identity is already public information on Facebook so I may have to do it. Unfortunately, the bigger problem is that, personally, I'm in the middle of some tricky paperwork problem with the government bureaucracy, just like my Facebook account. I may need to go to the court to sort it out, but currently I don't have time to bother. "Right to be forgotten" and GDPR seems to be a powerful tool to solve these kind of problems, but I'm not a EU citizen and I don't know much about its regulations, but I also want to know about it. Does anyone know something about it? Assuming I'm a EU citizen, how exactly, can I submit a request of information removal? If it's similar to DMCA takedowns, perhaps it can be used? Or it need a rigorous legal proof of identity like (2)? For non-EU citizens, is there a similar outlet to solve these kinds of problems?

ajnin 8y ago

Eu's GDPR defines several rights and obligations, one of which is : Personal data shall be [...] accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay (‘accuracy’); OP could contact Facebook's Data Protection Officer, that they are required to have, and demand that his data is fixed. A complaint can also be filed to the relevant country's Data Protection Authority if needed (I've done it with some success).

Jolter 8y ago
But how will he verify that he actually is the person who owns the account? Well, in this case, he still owns the email so it should work.