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I doubt that will magically cause any laws to become retroactively applicable. Why would it matter?

GDPR includes the "Right to Erasure"/"Right to be Forgotten." After May 25, they are actually required to delete your data, not just a "soft delete."

FWIW, Zuckerbot said before congress that if you request deletion, your data will actually be deleted, and I doubt he would dare lie to congress.

Then again, it's American congress, and what's the stat, how many of those congresspeople has he "donated" to?

Eh, you can choose to believe Zuckerberg here. I personally have no faith Facebook will voluntarily permanently delete someone's data when they close an account. They have shown very little prior behavior that would lead me to find his statements on this to be trustworthy.

Google ‘Zuckerberg lie to congress’.

You’ll find that there were plenty of statements that were on the line, crossed it or omitted key detail. Saying ‘I don’t know’ is also a lie if you do know, and there was a lot of that.

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/mark-zuckerberg-is-eithe...

> I doubt he would dare lie to congress

He wasn't under oath so the stakes for lying aren't too bad.

May 25 at 12:01am - Facebook violates GDPR, and the EU has no way of knowing it or enforcing it.

The more I hear about this, the more the "GDPR" seems like mere "PR."

What's more likely, that the EU wants good PR and hopes that nobody will notice they're not accomplishing anything, or that they're representing their constituents by making widely popular policies and putting the onus on violators to supply them with evidence of compliance?

Why not both?

One whistleblower could do the trick. Plenty of FB staff in Europe.

Who will be auditing Facebook to do this though?

Is the EU going to hire the Big4 in the U.S. to do this? Who is going to pay for that?

They'll be required to do this after May 25th regardless of when you deleted the account. All personal information is in scope of the law, not just personal information of people who were customers after the enforcement date.

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