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

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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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Gaaark on Friday March 30 2018, @02:57PM (3 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday March 30 2018, @02:57PM (#660387) Journal

    I have this shit in my toilet.
    It smells up my whole life but it's my connection to the outside world. If I flush the turd away I may lose all my 'friends', so there it sits.

    In my toilet.

    Smelling up everything.

    'Friends'.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @03:51PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @03:51PM (#660408)

    You might lose contact with family members that live on the other side of the country! The horror! And what about the events!? Can't miss those!

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @04:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @04:16PM (#660419)

      I moved across the country to get away from the family.

          - Don Carlos

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @07:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @07:17PM (#660482)

    You’re going to reap just what you sow.

    Lou warned me of FB years ago.