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45 Privacy Changes Facebook Will Make To Comply With Data Protection Law

• m3mb3r 15y ago
  What about making them delete user profile data after they unregister and not just hide it?
  • martey 15y ago
    One of the listed changes is "Work with the DPC to identify an acceptable retention period of data from inactive or deactivated accounts". Another is "Continue devoting engineering resources towards improving the system that irrevocably deletes user accounts and data within 40 days of receipt of a deletion request". Both of these have due dates of July 2012.
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  • rmc 15y ago
    I believe the EU is planning on updating the Data Protection laws, including giving people the right to actually delete their data. cf. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/762&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO...
• r00fus 15y ago
  Most of this is common sense data privacy. The problem for Facebook is that users aren't the customers, they're the product, so all these actions essentially increase their supplier cost with no appreciable gain for FB.