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Do you think they'll delete your data just because you chose to lose access to it? They are supposed to in the EU, but then again, they are not supposed to use your data in this way here either.

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I think that it became their data as soon as you uploaded it to Facebook. That's probably what the terms of service says, not that I've read it. Ultimately the lawyers decide whose is what.

I've never uploaded pictures of myself to Facebook, other than a few profile pictures, so you'd think I'd be in the clear, right? I doubt it. My friends have uploaded pictures with me to FB. I never authorized Facebook to use my image in my friend's pictures to train AI. I never authorized FB to use my friends to manually train FB's classifier by tagging the pixels representing me with my name. Yet here we are.

> I never authorized Facebook to use my image in my friend's pictures to train AI.

I'm sure they'll claim that the friend has the rights to the image and the friend gave permission via a click-wrap contract of adhesion.

From my time working on data infrastructure at Facebook, deletion policies are respected (permanently delete user data within X days). This was in 2018, though, so things may have changed.

Honestly, this is the only reason I keep my account open. I'm waiting until they're forced to honor account close/deletion for ALL users, not just EU or California residents. I'm sure any data attached to the account will have been shared around more than the village bicycle by then, but it's my best bet I think to wait until I'm sure it's closed before I just kill my own access to it.

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