Facebook Retains Information From Deleted Accounts: Are Your Details Safe?

Four years ago we saw the launch of face book and already there are over 50 million people singed up and around 200,00 joining a day. But what if you want to leave? Is it as simple as just deleting your account, well the answer is No.

To delete your face book account you need to undo every thing you have done yourself.

1)Delete your photo
2)Delete Comments and messages you wrote
3)Delete all your photo albums.
4)Delete your friends from your friends list. Leave all your networks and groups you have joined.

One of the questions asked by many is; are Facebook breaking the law by not deleting your account completely?

All we know is Facebook is subject to the UK’s data protection act. And the law says they shouldn’t be keeping your information when they don’t need it. Unless the information commissioner, Britain’s privacy watchdog, thinks it’s too difficult for them to delete.

Facebook have reportedly said in a statement that they don’t use information from deactivated accounts. But Facebook wouldn’t say why they made it so difficult to delete that data permanently and Facebook said that they believe they are in line with UK data protection law.

The fact is Facebook retains copyright to everything people put on the site. And they’re starting to use it in marketing campaigns for big companies like Coca-cola.

Do you think once you delete your account it should mean every thing you have done should get deleted to?

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