I'm completely unsurprised that my phone number is in there despite the fact that I deleted and closed my account 10 years ago.
"What should I do if I think that my personal data protection rights haven’t been respected? "
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
"European Data Protection Board Members"
I also wish we could do more to put pressure on Facebook and other bad players. Can’t help thinking this is viewed internally as just more work for the legal department followed by an X billion euro “cost of doing business” fine after so many years.
2. You don't negotiate with Facebook, you norify the regulators so they can asses another billion-euro fine.
Answer under the GDPR is probably: 0EUR.
It would be hard to argue that privacy is a human right and then limit the protections to citizens.
The former is for citizens, the latter for everyone.
In the US, privacy falls in something like the former: there are supposed to be legal safeguards to keep US citizens from being spied on, but eg the NSA wiretapping foreigners is fine and even encouraged.
That is my experience in a couple of other European countries as well. Of course, some rights are reserved to citizens: vote (although that is changing for local elections), things like service at embassies and consulates abroad, and some aspects of immigration.
But except for these narrow aspects, the law should be the same for everyone: we are not a caste system.
> But except for these narrow aspects, the law should be the same for everyone: we are not a caste system.
I agree that it should, but the biggest factor in most people's life is not silly things like voting, but the right to work.
Billions of people would like to live and work in the EU and the US, but are not allowed.
As I understand, deactivation is temporary, deletion erases all data.
But if people did delete their accounts and Facebook didn't erase the private data, aren't there consequences to this?
That's the problem, what we or regulators understand may well be very different to what actually happens
> aren't there consequences to this
A slap on the wrist at best, I'd bet my house on it
I think that's a better approach than suing them and getting the $10 from a class action.
I would not be surprised if FB kept that phone number with a "deleted" flag to this day though.
If I give someone's social security number to a company that doesn't mean they can publish it on the front page just because the person it belongs to didn't hand it over.
Another option would be that someone else has that number listed for their account. Has Facebook always required confirmation that a number is valid? I saw one my friends' numbers in the data except the account had a different name.