For us Facebookers, it’s no secret that our deleted information is never really “permanently” deleted – our posts are probably lingering around somewhere in Facebook purgatory. But the problem with these “deleted” photos never really disappearing has a deeper underlying issue: they are still accessible via direct link—something that came up in the news through people’s horror stories when trying to hide a specific photo from a specific someone.
“We have been working hard to move our photo storage to newer systems which do ensure photos are fully deleted within 45 days of the removal request being received[.] [...] This process is nearly complete and there is only a very small percentage of user photos still on the old system awaiting migration, the URL you provided was stored on this legacy system. We expect this process to be completed within the next month or two, at which point we will verify the migration is complete and we will disable the old content,” Facebook said to Ars Technica.
Facebook said they are on the verge of officially fixing this longstanding photo problem, and they will truly be deleted from the CDN within 45 days (so they say…), but then again Facebook has claimed to have fixed this problem before but never did anything about it, which leads us to believe these photos will still be available somehow, some way.
(via Mashable & Ars Technica; photo via DreamGrow)
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