I deleted my Facebook account once, then went back. All my stuff was still there. You can try all you want, they have it, and your data is more valuable to them than regulatory compliance can ever touch. Your data is out there, and it will never be deleted.
The only way damage you could possibly do would be to download your own copy of your profile data. Then (and this would only work en masse), place it under something like a creative commons license. This might seem counterintuitive, but facebook is selling your data. This way, they lose the profit of selling it in addition to any advantage they would have from hosting it.
I very much doubt that makes literally even the smallest difference. The problem is that Facebook isn’t selling your data–as in, not specifically yours. They sell everyone’s data. And the companies which buy that data aren’t going out and looking for anyone who’s licenced their data under whatever license, either. They buy a gigantic pile of data from Facebook and whatever parts of it are yours are gonna be in there either way.
That’s not going to stop them. Facebook builds profiles on people regardless of if they signed up or not. Just like any other online ad company, collecting ‘analytics’ about users even anonymous ones
I deleted my Facebook account once, then went back. All my stuff was still there. You can try all you want, they have it, and your data is more valuable to them than regulatory compliance can ever touch. Your data is out there, and it will never be deleted.
The only way damage you could possibly do would be to download your own copy of your profile data. Then (and this would only work en masse), place it under something like a creative commons license. This might seem counterintuitive, but facebook is selling your data. This way, they lose the profit of selling it in addition to any advantage they would have from hosting it.
I very much doubt that makes literally even the smallest difference. The problem is that Facebook isn’t selling your data–as in, not specifically yours. They sell everyone’s data. And the companies which buy that data aren’t going out and looking for anyone who’s licenced their data under whatever license, either. They buy a gigantic pile of data from Facebook and whatever parts of it are yours are gonna be in there either way.
Obviously they’re not really going to delete it
The point being they won’t get any more data to make money off of
That’s not going to stop them. Facebook builds profiles on people regardless of if they signed up or not. Just like any other online ad company, collecting ‘analytics’ about users even anonymous ones
Even if you’re not blocking all the external trackers, not giving the engagement and data on Facebook’s sites themselves still matters.