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It's exactly this setting of low expectations from tech companies that work with billions of user's data that has taken us to where we are.

A majority of Facebook user's aren't'techies'. It was Facebook's responsibility to make such features available/easy to access in the first place. It shouldn't have to be a legal requirement. Google/Twitter doing or not doing it doesn't have anything to do with it.

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But now they are offering this delete feature. What do you want them to do? Shut down the company because of the mistakes they committed in the past?

Also, Google and Twitter are relevant here since they are collecting 3rd party data and not offering this delete functionality. But no one is taking that up. Sometimes I wonder if this is really about privacy or just about Facebook.

> But now they are offering this delete feature. What do you want them to do? Shut down the company because of the mistakes they committed in the past?

This is indeed what happens to companies that cannot comply with the law because of mistakes committed in the past, yes.

Alright guys, party is over. Lets go home. Facebook is shutting down!

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