Ever change your mind while composing a video to post on Facebook? If you used Facebook's tools, they kept it anyway.
Earlier this week, like many people around the world, my sister Bailey downloaded her Facebook data archives. Along with the contact lists and relationship statuses was something unexpected: several different videos of her attempting to play a scale on a wooden flute in her childhood bedroom. Each video, she discovered, was a different "take" — recorded on Facebook, but then, she assumed, discarded before she posted the final version to a friend's wall.
[...] Facebook's current data policy says that the company can "collect the content and other information you provide when you use our Services, including when you sign up for an account, create or share, and message or communicate with others." "Create" is the operative word in there. By that logic, Facebook technically could save any video a user filmed but did not publish because you created it on the platform.
(Score: 3, Informative) by SomeGuy on Friday March 30 2018, @06:49PM
The only real surprise here is that facefuck handed over the unposted data at all. Probably someone at farcebook just didn't test everything all the way.
Of course they keep all of that and bazillion times more.
While I doubt they will lose a significant amount of product (no, the customers are the ones paying for the aggregated data), it is interesting to see the first real sign that Facebook won't last forever.