[spacestation]

deleting your account is futile, photographs will still remain on their AWS account.

after deleting one of my accounts, I was suspicious that they would still keep the photographs.

So to test this, I made a dummy account named after where i live; nikkojapan http://instagram.com/nikkojapan/

i made a quick pointless photograph just to upload http://instagram.com/p/K8bx_ZB59K/

Here is the link that still exists to the photograph of an account that was deleted right after the Facebook acquisition announcement. http://distilleryimage6.instagram.com/6d96aaa0a45611e1a9f712...

[TeeWEE]

Isn't that against their privacy policy?

[spacestation]

"privacy policy"...This is Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook we are talking about and a guy named Kevin Systrom that falling in line very subserviently.

[meerita]

Deleting the photos doesn't work even?

[spacestation]

I would say no... I "deleted" these photographs back in May.. and they are still on AWS.

[meerita]

:/ then this thing is serious. I deleted my account, but I don't mind the photos in it (I had ~250). But some people has tons of photos and this may be a problem.

[PJones]

Just tried deleting a photo, and it looks like they remove the image straight away in that case: http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2010/10/08/92944289...

Hopefully it just takes a little time when deleting the account to go through and delete the individual photos, but I'll be deleting the individual photos before I delete my account to be safe.

[hamoid]

I've been trying to delete individual photos and I think they limit the rate at which you can do this. I feel it's something like 10 photos per hour. If I try to delete more, they just pop back in on my Android phone.

[spacestation]

I need to note that the date I "deleted" my photographs was May 25, 2012. That is 7 months ago and still in the possession of Facebook.

Also, I forgot to include the screenshot of the photograph being hosted on the dummy account just before I deleted it and the account; http://spacestation.co/I1ry

[54mf]

This is actually kind of a big deal. Have you sent this info to any tech blogs?

[spacestation]

I have commented on blog posts of tech blogs about it using ...but, they hasn't been noticed yet.

[spacestation]

how do you suppose I should approach them..