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I'm guessing there are legal requirements that prevent them from truly deleting your content. Abusive ex-husband posts pictures of himself making threatening r

I'm guessing there are legal requirements that prevent them from truly deleting your content. Abusive ex-husband posts pictures of himself making threatening remarks to his wife. Other potentially incriminating documents. If he was able to delete it, then that evidence is lost. My only thought of how to preserve privacy rights is to have the "deleted"-not-deleted user files sent to a legal-compliance department and out of facebook's user database (where I have no doubt they're using the "deleted"-not-deleted user's files in analysis.

moyix 12y ago
In the US, at least, I believe there is no such legal requirement unless the party doing the deleting is aware of pending legal action relevant to the documents being deleted. I'm not a lawyer though and may be wrong.
- Kluny 12y ago
  Agreed, it's not Facebook's job to retain evidence for all their users' lawsuits.
- dredmorbius 12y ago
  Accurate. Many corporations exploit this with "document retention" policies, which are more often about document destruction.