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Of course I can. The question is - will they actually delete it everywhere inside their data storages or will they just send me a 200 response code.
by konart 7y ago
Of course I can. The question is - will they actually delete it everywhere inside their data storages or will they just send me a 200 response code.
- reaperducer 7y agoAnd what exactly does "delete" mean? It's removed from production, or it's also scoured from backups?
- jimclegg 7y agoAfter I give them the data required to prove I'm authorized to delete the template, what happens to that data? Trusting Facebook... rather jump down a well.
- DannyB2 7y agoIt is deleted, then added to a list of deleted faces. Just so they can be sure not to re-add it later. Yeah. That's it! And they're sticking with that story.
- throwaway2048 7y agoSensing another Zuckerberg promise "to do better" in the works already.
- dayjah 7y agoAt Amazon new products have a press release written during the spec phase (to help frame the pitch internally); I presume, at this point, fb writes an apology during spec phase...
- ALittleLight 7y agoHas he already apologized for the recent release of a half billion phone numbers?
- altfredd 7y agoHey, we have just gotten a enormous phone directory for free! Why are you complaining?
- barking 7y agoUnless you want it restored in which case they'll undelete it for you. It's good design to provide an undo option after all.
- ineedasername 7y agoUndo options are user friendly! And what if you really actually want them to use your face data, but hit it by accident? Maybe it's best if they just ignore the request all together. That way you can both feel good about things, users think they got what they wanted, and Facebook actually gets what it wants. Everyone wins. Except the user, who loses.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoIt's a face backup. In case you lose the original.
- DeepYogurt 7y agoOne has to wonder if they'll make a model of deleted faces.
- nocsi 7y agoTheir definition of "delete" is to dissociate your identity from the data pieces. There's no true way to splice out a person from their database otherwise
- doctorpangloss 7y agoAllowing regulators to look at systems, data and source code is the inevitable conclusion of this madness where software companies say one thing and do something completely different.
- mentat 7y agoWhat could possibly go wrong with that...
- throwaway2048 7y agoYeah this is all starting to feel a lot like what the NSA's definition of observing data is.
- wnmurphy 7y agoMy guess: delete flag set in db, data remains but is ignored.
- tomatotomato37 7y agoIs it even feasible to scour all their backups? And I don't mean the hot backups, I mean the annual data dumps stored on tapes in a data archive built in a cold war nuclear bunker somewhere in the Rockies.
- sixothree 7y agoAre they really using the word "delete"? I know this is pretty much forbidden in Google world.
- __m 7y agoyeah and what about future images, will they be associated with a shadow profile?
- godelski 7y agoIs it deleted from the models? Clearly they aren't doing that. Do they fine tune their models so they can no longer identify you from your photo? I'd also doubt that. More clarification on deletion is needed.
- bilbo0s 7y agoYeah, if it's already been shared with commercial partners, or especially, if it's already been shared with government agencies, the cat is out of the bag. Not really sure what can be done to regain control of that data? But, hey, at least FB will "delete" it! So, yeah, I guess there's that? :(
- LiamPa 7y ago*202 never to be executed