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by lphnull 2706 days ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this comment. I recently had my facebook account "accidentally reactivated" against my will after I had deactivated it on facebook. I deactivated it a second time, and am currently hoping that it doesn't "come back to life" again for one reason or another. The last time it happened, it was because I was right in the middle of a big california fire and I think facebook was trying to be "helpful" or something by giving me the option of alerting family members that I was okay.

I wouldn't mind deleting everything, loading up facebook onto a VPN-facing VM and selling it for cash and watching it burn. Maybe my old account would become so cluttered with garbage, that they'll be forced to finally let me open up a blank new account with nothing on it that I'll park and forget the password to one day. Only then will the illusion of privacy finally be complete.
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the_duke 2706 days ago
Then just permanently delete your account instead of deactivating it?
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scottlocklin 2706 days ago
FWIIW it doesn't really delete the data here either.

Citation: I deleted my account, asked friends if my side of old conversations was still there. It is.

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tzs 2706 days ago
That raises an interesting question: who owns a conversation?

I'm not at all sure how data protection laws, such as GDPR, do or should interact with online messaging systems. For instance, if you ask Google to remove all data they have on you on gmail, do they have to reach into the mailboxes of any other gmail users who have received mail from you and delete those messages?

Or do the recipients count as the ones who are storing that data, so if you want your data out of my mailbox you would have to ask me, not Google?

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the_duke 2706 days ago
That would be a big violation of EU laws.

Maybe it depends on jurisdiction.

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scottlocklin 2706 days ago
Yes it would be: but I used the Russian nuclear testing site as my address, so they may not apply GDPR to it.
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zozbot123 2706 days ago
Russian troll spotted? Maybe that's why Facebook "reactivated" the account so easily.
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scottlocklin 2706 days ago
Yes, I'm sure most Russian trolls use the Russian nuclear test site as their home address when posting from Berkeley.
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