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Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos

posted by mrpg on Friday March 30 2018, @02:00PM   
from the are-we-done-yet? dept.

Booga1 writes:

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.

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Original Submission

• You proles are the worst You proles are the worst (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @02:09PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @02:09PM (#660363)

  Any data you send across the Internet should be assumed recorded.

  Why would you expect anything else?

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• Re:You proles are the worst (Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday March 31 2018, @01:09AM

  by driverless (4770) on Saturday March 31 2018, @01:09AM (#660646)

  Facebook speichern
  was sie wissen
  elektronisch ein

  alles kann ja irgendwann
  und irgendwie mal wichtig sein.

  Tag und Nacht wird es bei dir sein

  Tag und Nacht wird es bei dir sein
  Facebook.

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