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Since there are many anecdotal reports of Facebook failing to delete the profile history data even after closing your account, is there a better way people should be scrubbing their data? Some kind of tool, perhaps, that edits all of your posts and replaces them with scrambled / gibberish text?

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Facebook sure as hell won't create such a tool. If you do, open source it and I shall use it for sure.

They could easily be keeping a history of everything, so while this would affect the final version of the item, it wouldn't delete the history. The data would still be there for them to mine, and to be stolen.

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