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deleting your account is futile, photographs will still remain on their AWS account. after deleting one of my accounts, I was suspicious that they would still
by spacestation 14y ago
deleting your account is futile, photographs will still remain on their AWS account.
after deleting one of my accounts, I was suspicious that they would still keep the photographs.
So to test this, I made a dummy account named after where i live; nikkojapan
http://instagram.com/nikkojapan/ http://instagram.com/nikkojapan/
i made a quick pointless photograph just to upload
http://instagram.com/p/K8bx_ZB59K/ http://instagram.com/p/K8bx_ZB59K/
Here is the link that still exists to the photograph of an account that was deleted right after the Facebook acquisition announcement.
http://distilleryimage6.instagram.com/6d96aaa0a45611e1a9f71231382044a1_7.jpg http://distilleryimage6.instagram.com/6d96aaa0a45611e1a9f712...
- TeeWEE 14y agoIsn't that against their privacy policy?
- spacestation 14y ago"privacy policy"...This is Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook we are talking about and a guy named Kevin Systrom that falling in line very subserviently.
- meerita 14y agoDeleting the photos doesn't work even?
- spacestation 14y agoI would say no... I "deleted" these photographs back in May.. and they are still on AWS.
- meerita 14y ago:/ then this thing is serious. I deleted my account, but I don't mind the photos in it (I had ~250). But some people has tons of photos and this may be a problem.
- 54mf 14y agoThis is actually kind of a big deal. Have you sent this info to any tech blogs?
- spacestation 14y agoI have commented on blog posts of tech blogs about it using ...but, they hasn't been noticed yet.
- spacestation 14y agohow do you suppose I should approach them..
- PJones 14y agoJust tried deleting a photo, and it looks like they remove the image straight away in that case: http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2010/10/08/92944289f50849ad9d48a05ee8b93ea7_7.jpg http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2010/10/08/92944289... Hopefully it just takes a little time when deleting the account to go through and delete the individual photos, but I'll be deleting the individual photos before I delete my account to be safe.
- hamoid 14y agoI've been trying to delete individual photos and I think they limit the rate at which you can do this. I feel it's something like 10 photos per hour. If I try to delete more, they just pop back in on my Android phone.
- spacestation 14y agoI need to note that the date I "deleted" my photographs was May 25, 2012. That is 7 months ago and still in the possession of Facebook. Also, I forgot to include the screenshot of the photograph being hosted on the dummy account just before I deleted it and the account; http://spacestation.co/I1ry http://spacestation.co/I1ry