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Ask HN: Did you delete Facebook account after the NSA fiasco?

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Also, Are you doing anything about moving away from Google?

Note: I am mainly interested in Facebook and Google.

No. I deleted it way before that when I found out private companies where doing this. At the time I was job hunting and became well aware that companies could pay money to have access to my online data. Particularly companies that do any sort of background checks.

IMHO there is nothing "new" about the NSA fiasco.

No. There's no point, they're just going to keep my data indefinitely anyway and give it to whomever they want. "deleting" is meaningless when it comes to facebook.

Tell me a way to delete my data on facebook, afaik there isn't one. Not even the way of going through the law and legal system. I live in europe, but even that doesn't help.

I considered using an exploit to remove some data, but that would shot in my head. And it's patched now anyway

Facebook HQ Europe is based in Ireland. They must follow the Irish data protection law. Some info about getting access or modifying / deleting your information can be found at

http://www.dataprotection.ie/ViewDoc.asp?DocID=858&UserLang=...

This is as close as you can get to "deleting" your Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674

Obviously your data is still stored somewhere on FB servers. I refuse to believe they simply delete your data.

Yes, but it's been on my mind for a while ( ever since my feed has become populated with advertisements ). The NSA fiasco wasn't really the reason, but it definitely helped me conclude the time was now.

I deleted my Facebook account years ago. I still have a Google account, but I use it minimally. I started backing away from Google before all this began, even.

How'd you move away from Gmail, Google search?

My original comment was somewhat incorrect. I log in via a browser minimally these days, but I still rely on both Google search and Gmail. I hope to find a good alternative to Gmail at some point, but it hasn't happened yet.

try http://ecosia.org or http://startpage.com or http://duckduckgo.com or http://blekko.com

I often visit ecosia and hope I could do more than that to recover & save the rain forest.

Keep in mind that bing.com is the same as google.com regarding surveillance.

Forget the pointlessness of deleting your account - the real value is not continuing to feed the beast.

Deleting your data on Facebook or Google doesn't change anything. They just mark it as deleted.

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