Asking for…umm…a friend. How long before Meta deletes your content after you request to delete your account?
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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
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They don't need the data perpetually to train their AI. Just dump it once into the black box and be done with it - no need to save it for even a second. Of course, if they want to train and re-train, and perhaps build ad profiles, that's a different matter.
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Thats cute, but no. Its a company with profitmargins
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I went without Facebook for about 7 years. I went through the account deletion process. After meeting my now wife, she wanted to be able to send me stuff she sees on there. W/E I'll just use my old email address and spin up a new account... Low and behold, my account was still there... I went through and manually deleted all of my posts, chats, liked pages, everything. My account is now just a place for my wife to share reels.
I don't like Facebook but I have found it convenient to be able to use the marketplace again.
