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I once told my bookie to delete my account. He said he can't remove it from the db but he can try his best to not accept any wagers from the account. I've since wagered 100 + times that conversation. Maybe fb is the same. Maybe they know sooner or later, some how either through curiosity or some stupid link you click on, you'll be back?

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It's the same way you can't delete your World of Warcraft account, only 'de-activate' it. They know you'll be back.

(Of course you can do things like trash all your gear, then delete all your characters, but unless you do that the temptation will always be there...)

Thats illegal since the GDPR.

Well, in Europe maybe. And only if a game character and items in their game count as your data. (IIRC there was actually something in the license agreement about all characters remaining property of Blizzard.)

The GDPR is about personal information. That is your name, address, email, IP address that you used to connect with, etc.

So yes, they can keep your character, but they have to delete anything that can link that character to you.

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