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This. It is hard to imagine a situation in which providing information on the identity of person who requested the removal of a dead person's profile to an aggrieved party is going to result in anything other than the harassment of that person. Especially in circumstances like this when that person may well have felt they were acting reasonably, and does not appear to have committed any actual criminal or civil offence.

Facebook's responsibility to not promote the harassment of its users exceeds its responsibility to provide details of why they carried out a request.

Additionally, Facebook had some reason to believe that even if they wanted to doxx that person, disclosing their communication to a third party without that person's own permission may have been a breach of UK/EU data protection laws




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