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Facebook Retracted Zuckerberg's Messages From Recipients' Inboxes (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the of-course-they-do dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. Three sources confirm to TechCrunch that old Facebook messages they received from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their Facebook inboxes, while their own replies to him conspiculously remain. An email receipt of a Facebook message from 2010 reviewed by TechCrunch proves Zuckerberg sent people messages that no longer appear in their Facebook chat logs or in the files available from Facebook's Download Your Information tool. Casey Newton, a reporter at The Verge, tweeted, "Deleting Mark's messages while leaving the recipients' intact highlights Facebook's actual views on privacy better than any statement it makes on the subject ever will"

Update: Facebook has just announced that it will give all users an option to unsend messages.

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  1. Their servers, their service by DogDude · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is their service running on their servers. They can do whatever they want with it. Why would anybody be surprised?

    I also have my own servers, and I can also delete whatever I want from them. So what?

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    1. Re:Their servers, their service by DogDude · · Score: 2, Interesting

      This sort of move looks terrible.

      Does it, though? People using Facebook are already doing so because they don't care about their data. Other people already know they shouldn't give their data to Facebook. I think that stuff like this has zero impact on Facebook.

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  2. Facebook 2020 == MySpace 2010 by Oxygen99 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How long can Facebook stock hold up while Peeping Tom Zuckerberg carries on as CEO? Even the general public can't be dim enough to continue contributing to this Orwellian freakshow.

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    1. Re:Facebook 2020 == MySpace 2010 by HiThere · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I wish you were correct, but my real guess is that Facebook will continue until something just as intrusive, or more, replaces it in popular fashion.

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      I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.