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"Your account will be ‘deactivated’ for two weeks. After this period it will be permanently deleted."

"In theory, deleting your account immediately removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's more complicated, taking about 90 days."

Does this comply with the GDPR ?

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It's very hard to believe anything in this space is going to comply other than complete deletion at time of request or some shorter (90 days? please. 3.) period. The hint of NSA complicity is a bit of a red herring: they don't need government snooping requests to motivate this retention.

Before the news about misuse of data, I would have said "nothing will change here" but for the bad PR outcome risk, Its possible FB will make some change for european users, to comply, and the rest of us can suck it up.

Under GDPR the period allowed before deletion is 1 month, but can be extended 2 months (for a total of three months) if there exists special grounds for delaying it.

As soon as the GDPR takes effect I'll send them a request to get all my info and then delete it, it'll be interesting to see the response.

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