@General Lighting 442514 wrote:
yes. the “deleted” data stays on their servers for a certain amount of time (the exact time is unclear) specifically for this reason, and FB provide feds worldwide with easy access to private data otherwise FB could be accused of facilitating crime and locked off in some countries, which would cost them money due to the lost traffic to advertisers. Some rich but authoritarian countries only tolerate FB because it co-operates more with feds than other social networks/blogs/forums.
in the UK getting info from social networks can be as straightforward as a Detective Inspector or above sending a faxed request on headed paper (with contact details so they can check its a real copper) to the right places. Its also widely suspected (but of course information is harder to get) that some constabularies in high crime areas have specialist teams with high level access to facebook databases and also authorise officers to covertly friend people to get info.
even in the 90s it was thought of as very foolish to use the net to overtly commit crime or brag about it online, cops were monitoring it as soon as it became popular. A lot of serving officers today especially in SE England are very computer-literate as a fair few folk joined the old bill after being made redundant from IT jobs in these areas in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Grrr just what I wasn’t wanting to hear, I thought there might be a chance that it would warrant the police bothering as it might be a ball ache for them guess not thanks for the info though.
So if im guessing this right the only way to really delete your facebook is to delete all photos statuses messages yourself and then deactiveate you’re account for like a month ?
That is litterally impossible i must of set thousands of statuses have thousands of messages and hundreds of photos wish i had never made one in the first place, thanks for the info though appreciated !
