[mttddd]

anecdotally from a few folks I know who work there it does get completely deleted after a month or two I believe. Like you said between GDPR, the FTC settlement and just general bad press they actually take deleting data pretty seriously

[Sunspark]

I am skeptical. The reason is because I worked for a bank that had a policy of deleting data after 7+ years. The thing is, a number of database tables were just simply removed from the index but still existed and if you knew the name of the table you could continue accessing them. Likewise, all the tape backups continued to exist, they weren't shredded and this was proven when someone in IT somewhere screwed up and restored my team's network drive with an image from 10+ years ago. It was interesting poking around to see what files were on it from before anyone on the current team was a member, but that shouldn't have happened. So, if a multi-national bank was acting this way, why would FB be any different? They are so large now, fines are just background noise and they have to be caught to be fined.

[jakecopp]

> So, if a multi-national bank was acting this way, why would FB be any different?

I don't think this supports the argument.