Asking for…umm…a friend. How long before Meta deletes your content after you request to delete your account?
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To add, not deleted stuff is what my favorite lawyers call "discoverable". Not sure how many lawyers Meta has but I'm betting at least one of them is reminding them deleting stuff is a good thing.
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If your friend is an EU citizen, they might have some luck with a GDPR request to delete all their data.
They also might not. Meta technically would have to comply, but there is no real way to know if they did.
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They need the data to train theur AI. They will not delete. They may glag that the account is now deleted and add this to the data fed to the AI.
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Sane response as the EU but for California
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mechanically wiping data
You mean thermite the drives while the employees are gone for a holiday/lunch?
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Even for European users? That seems illegal.
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Where did you get that information from? Their ToS say nothing like that. Stop spreading fake news.
When you delete your account as a European they are legally required to delete everything associated with you or that you created.
Please don't spread fake news without providing a source.
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That's illegal in Europe.
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It should be 30 days
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It is illegal if you send a delete request.
The question is here, if 'delete account' is the same as asking Meta to delete all data in the regard of GDPR. My guess is, its not.
There's also no way they will retrain their AI without your data, just because you told them to.
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Are you from the EU? We have an entirely different UI than the US. We get additional options. When you request to delete your account and all the data it gets deleted. I'm confident of that. The EU has given very expensive fines for much less than that.
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GDPR permits anonymizing data instead of deleting it, provided anonymization is irreversible. They're keeping it one way or another. They don't need to know who the data belongs to to feed it to an AI.
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And if you attempt to sign back in, or open anything that auto signs you in, it will cancel the 30 day countdown to delete and restore your account.
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Bad source. This is not even the European ToS and the information listed on it isn't referenced. It's like asking ChatGPT for an answer.
It's European law that your personal content gets deleted or completely deanonymized. The latter is in most cases obviously not possible with Facebook or Instagram posts.
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It's going to be really difficult to anonymize personal posts. FB and Instagram posts often include personal information. Feeding it to AI isn't going to help as someone might find a way to reproduce it with queries and they get in trouble.
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I find it hard to believe any given post would have enough information to link it back to a specific person when viewed in isolation. Even "I'm Mary and going to visit my friend Sarah in New York City." isn't going to tell you who that belongs to if the profile and history itself is gone. It would have to be ridiculously detailed and all contained within a single post to actually reliably point to a specific person.
Containing personal information in general and even having an AI spit it out (which good luck, that's not really how LLM work unless there's something SUPER niche that essentially only you have spoken about) isn't enough to say it isn't anonymized. You also have to show it could specifically be linked to you by other people, in other words, that it can be de-anonymized.
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It's legal if they irreversibly anonymise it.
So the content you created will still be used to train AI with no consent from or payment to you.
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Don't they ressurect dead accounts, and use the ai to post randomly
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Even Reddit doesn't delete your post(data) when you delete your account. You will have to do it. Yourself first
