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I probably wouldn't be amongst the first in line for any 'tool' facebook would be offering to completely own your data. I feel as if there would be something th

I probably wouldn't be amongst the first in line for any 'tool' facebook would be offering to completely own your data. I feel as if there would be something that would be underpinning the tool which would make in itself useless.

beatgammit 8y ago
Yeah, like the "delete your account" option. It's hard to find (disabling is easy to find, but also completely reversible, so useless), and I'm sure it doesn't actually delete anything, but it made me feel better than just leaving my Facebook account active/disabled. I didn't have much of value there anyway. I would love more transparency here, but we're not getting that without government intervention, and that's unlikely to come anytime soon (and what gets passed may be worse than the current situation).
- notafrog 8y ago
  A few days ago my fiancée asked me to delete her Instagram profile. There's no user friendly way to do it. You have to go to help.instagram.com or search Google to find the link.
- cyphar 8y ago
  > I would love more transparency here, but we're not getting that without government intervention, and that's unlikely to come anytime soon (and what gets passed may be worse than the current situation). The GDPR (General Data Privacy Regulation -- an EU regulation that came into force last year) provides for this and has potentially very large fines to back up the regulation. Obviously it only applies to EU residents (or businesses) but I've heard that California is getting their own version of GDPR -- though I haven't looked into it. Facebook implemented the "delete your account" option that actually works in response to this, as well as giving explicit and opt-in consent to whatever tracking they use.
Frost1x 8y ago
The only way to clear history with Facebook is to create no history to begin with. If you want to "clear" history to delude yourself that revenant Facebook information is gone (or at least make it difficult to obtain from your own account), there's plenty of options for that.
- mnsc 8y ago
  Well I am in europe so we have GDPR and I have deleted my account in january, waited the (non-optional) month without logging in to confirm I want to be gone. I will now request the information they still might have. That will be fun.
  - ncallaway 8y ago
    I can't wait until CCPA takes effect and there's _some_ protections for us in the states.

beatgammit 8y ago

Yeah, like the "delete your account" option. It's hard to find (disabling is easy to find, but also completely reversible, so useless), and I'm sure it doesn't actually delete anything, but it made me feel better than just leaving my Facebook account active/disabled. I didn't have much of value there anyway. I would love more transparency here, but we're not getting that without government intervention, and that's unlikely to come anytime soon (and what gets passed may be worse than the current situation).

notafrog 8y ago
A few days ago my fiancée asked me to delete her Instagram profile. There's no user friendly way to do it. You have to go to help.instagram.com or search Google to find the link.
cyphar 8y ago
> I would love more transparency here, but we're not getting that without government intervention, and that's unlikely to come anytime soon (and what gets passed may be worse than the current situation). The GDPR (General Data Privacy Regulation -- an EU regulation that came into force last year) provides for this and has potentially very large fines to back up the regulation. Obviously it only applies to EU residents (or businesses) but I've heard that California is getting their own version of GDPR -- though I haven't looked into it. Facebook implemented the "delete your account" option that actually works in response to this, as well as giving explicit and opt-in consent to whatever tracking they use.

Frost1x 8y ago

The only way to clear history with Facebook is to create no history to begin with. If you want to "clear" history to delude yourself that revenant Facebook information is gone (or at least make it difficult to obtain from your own account), there's plenty of options for that.

mnsc 8y ago
Well I am in europe so we have GDPR and I have deleted my account in january, waited the (non-optional) month without logging in to confirm I want to be gone. I will now request the information they still might have. That will be fun.
- ncallaway 8y ago
  I can't wait until CCPA takes effect and there's _some_ protections for us in the states.