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What happens to your data? In theory, deleting your account removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's more complicated , taking about 90 days.
Allegations of complicity with National Security Agency surveillance and multiple data-privacy breaches suggest that your data may never truly be deleted.
Backup your data before deletion if you'd like a copy.
You can still cleanse your Facebook presence for everyone else,
Delete any sensitive content that you have posted. Contact friends about content that you would like deleted. Leaving social data behind As hard as you try, some personally identifiable information may remain. This could be something as simple as your name on a message, unless you're Mark Zuckerberg .
You have little control over this or what others share about you in future. The most you can realistically do is ask your friends to respect your privacy.
Data shared with apps and advertisers is with them forever. As a Facebook user you are leaving behind a valuable personal data footprint.
What to do next? Facebook can track non-users via the ‘like’ button and other similar means. You can minimise this and protect your privacy.
Switch to a privacy focused browser like Brave or try a tracking blocker in your favourite. Use a non-tracking search engine like DuckDuckGo . Try a secure messaging app. Signal is a great choice. You should rethink your relationship with Google and Microsoft .
Facebook owns social Facebook owns Instagram, Oculus, Messenger, WhatsApp and can share data between them.
Keep this in mind when using their apps. Here are the deletion links.
Enjoy your freedom Facebook was founded in 2004. Their leadership has had well over a decade to learn from their privacy blunders. They have consistently failed to reign in their greed.
‘Demanding privacy from surveillance capitalists … is like asking … a giraffe to shorten its neck, or a cow to give up chewing. These demands are existential threats that violate the basic mechanisms of the entity's survival.’ - Shoshana Zuboff.
Explore Facebook's problematic history Free speech and paid political ads Whatever your opinion on Facebook's policies, the company's choices impact society worldwide.
Free speech is not the same as paid speech.
Paid political ads and similar topics need immediate discussion and regulation. These systems are broken and open to abuse by malicious actors with sufficient funds.
All power corrupts; Facebook continues to dominate. It's important to consider their future.
‘And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ - Sir John Dalberg-Acton .
Web/app developers If you produce content on the web, you can make a massive difference .
Sites could be liable for helping Facebook secretly track your web browsing.
This ethical approach would make it difficult for Facebook to track users around the web. App developers, you can help too .
On a lighter note The following links are to amusing fake stories… obviously?
Mark Zuckerberg - Dead At 36 . ‘You're Deleting Your Account? We'll be sad to see you go,’ says Facebook prompt showing user photo of own dead body .Mark Zuckerberg announces virtual roundtable with American hate groups to better understand how they work. As a Facebook employee, I was ordered to bury thousands of stories about Mark Zuckerberg's human zoo . Mark Zuckerberg recalls coming up with idea for Facebook after seeing Dopamine-addicted lab rat starve to death. Don't feed money‑hungry ad‑monsters. Take back your privacy with DuckDuckGo!
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It's time to make them stop (Gabriel Weinberg, CNBC).Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information (Kashmir Hill, Gizmodo).Every little bit helps (DHH, Signal v. 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