[ino]

If you're in Europe and want to delete your fb account, wouldn't it be better to wait until GDPR activates, so your data actually gets erased instead of hidden?

I'm going to erase quite a few accounts I'm no longer using on various services, I really hope they won't cheat.

[scarmig]

Legal question: what situations will guarantee that Facebook erases info under GDPR?

Do I have to issue the request from an IP-address believed to be under GDPR? Be a resident or citizen of an EU member state?

[411mrc]

Get a Euro zone VPN and try, maybe change your location to match?

[mattkevan]

It’s currently not possible to request all your data from Instagram, so I’m waiting for GDPR to arrive before closing my account.

That way I can both get a backup of my images and have a reasonable chance of my data actually being deleted.

[briandear]

Any proof anything is actually deleted?

Also, what’s the process for proving that you are the legitimate owner of the record?

[dangom]

According to Wikipedia, GDPR arrives on the 25th of May. Do you know it services are truly forced to comply from that day onwards or should we wait even longer?

[neffy]

They are forced to comply at that point - they've had 2 years to get ready.

It's going to be very interesting to see what happens. Actual compliance I strongly suspect is going to depend on whether they enforce it - and actually levy a fine of 4% of total annual revenue against a significant company.

Apropos nothing, I remember reading an article a few years ago about how Facebook was using blue ray disks for long term storage.

Now if I was responsible for this thing, I would wait 6 months or so, and then tell all the Data Protection Authorities that their bonuses were directly linked to revenue from enforcement ... and sit back and watch the fun.

[camkego]

If we log on from the UK or another European company after the 25th and delete the account from there, will they apply the GDPR based deletion, where they actually delete the data?

[neffy]

Strictly it only applies to residents of the EU, how much attention companies will pay to that, is another matter. But given the risks associated with not deleting data, I suspect most companies will err on the side of safety.

[illumin8]

Change your location to somewhere in the EU, then delete.

[badminton1]

Are e-residents (e.g: Estonia) protected by GDPR?

[stevenjohns]

Was just about to ask this. I wonder if Estonian e-residents would have the same digital protections offered to EU residents, including the right to be forgotten[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten#European...