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Question is does Facebook remove it from their data?



Even if they did keep some part of the data, would they be able to use it for anything without inevitably getting caught and facing another scandal?


It might be difficult to catch depending on the how macro attributions they could make on you, depending on the time scale - say over 20 years, if you cleared the history every year, it might give them insights that might be hard to correlate to earlier history.

If there were strong whistle-blower laws and pre-set rewards however, then might get a whistle-blower who could earn themselves say $1B+ (based on size/revenues of Facebook) for outing the deceit - which then Facebook would be fined for.


Is a scandal a huge issue? Despite the recent #DeleteFacebook and everything, Facebook wasn't really impacted all that much and is still making tons of profit even without the 1% of users who did delete it. A future hypothetical scandal where another 1% deletes it would be worth it considering all the data and revenue they made from abusing people's data before the scandal.


We will see. Here in Europe, its possible to find out after 2018-05-25.

My guess is that they will retain as much data on you as they can legally get away with.


Ah... now I'm speculating that this tool is their answer to GPDR's right to delete. "We have a tool, we're compliant!".

Insert "Beware of the Leopard" quote here...


Doubtful they will destroy data. Instead, it will most likely be a flag that's flipped to indicate "deleted" status.




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