If you scroll down the twitter thread, you can see clicking "other options" instead of "accept" gives you a screen saying "if you don't want to accept the new TOS, click here to download a copy of your data and delete your account"
Thanks, I was at work and didn't want to read the whole thing. I searched for "delete" but nothing showed up in my browser...
Don’t they still track you even if you don’t have an account?
I'm gonna guess that no, you can't. That's what I would expect from Facebook.
Greate, so now my account will just exist in some state of limbo...
Even if you can't access the link, you can definitively send them an email citing the appropriate GDPR articles and demand a way to delete the account without approving anything.
VPN in and delete your account? I've no personal experience to know if this is the wrong use case but I've seen it recommended enough on HN now to think its the right solution for this issue.
I imagine that doing this would have a downside: if they think you are outside the EU, they are not obligated to fully delete your data - it would live forever as soft-deleted, which may not be what you want if your intention is to protest against tracking.
How can you prove a hard delete.
And you can VPN within the EU..
The purpose of the suggested VPN was to send your traffic to FB from outside the EU. That would then make it so FB didn't prompt you with new EU TOS, so you could click through (since you wouldn't be governed by GDPR). But the catch is that the traffic outside the EU wouldn't be governed by GDPR there is also no recourse if they don't hard delete( of course it would be hard to verfiy if they did like you pointed out).
> But the catch is that the traffic outside the EU wouldn't be governed by GDPR
Luckily, that’s not how it works
That will result in a 4% revenue fine under GDPR rules if I read the correctly.
The 4% is a maximum fine, not a minimum. But indeed the regulators could choose to go quite high against a violator that is as persistently obstinate as Facebook despite having their level of resources and expertise.
I see no reason why each of the 28 member states can't find FB in violation and fine it independently.
Let's not beat around the bush: the GDPR was created mostly because of Facebook. So if anyone is going to get the maximum penalty to be made an example of, it's going to be them.
Or, you could just not respond if you don't know the answer.