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I am 3 seconds away from deleting my account, but before I do that I would like to know if fb actually deletes my account and everything I've generated on there. I have a feeling that they just insert a "deleted=True" in the database. In that case I don't want to delete my account, because I'm merely giving up my right to log in.

So, do they completely remove my account information, or do they just mark me deleted?




Are you deleting your account because of this?

What you do with your account is for you to decide of course, but it shouldn't really come as a surprise that facebook has this data (they show it on the site) or that they would comply with a subpoena.

The surprising bit for me is how much data is missing from this.


The information probably still exists somewhere. The best you can do is probably to stop using your account.


I presume you deleted it, but they do say they will delete it. I may try a data protection request to see if they have as I deleted my acount a long time back.




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