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Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage

David Gosnell

Re: 618MB later...

Update: needless to say, it didn't actually remove all imported contacts at all. Still naive.

Further update: it took a while, but eventually I was notified the process was complete, and the displayed list duly empty. I shall attempt another data dump to see if the offending information is removed. Odds of success? Well, it still seems to have remembered the last data dump rather than creating a new one, so maybe, maybe not. But that does mean that even though it might have purged its database, the information is still in the dump file it's trying to serve me, so they are in fact continuing to store it (albeit in static form) even though I have asked for it to be deleted and they say they have. Big oops.

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