Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online

Found on Ars Technica on Monday, 06 February 2012
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Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic.

When we asked Facebook about it, we were told that the company was "working with our content delivery network (CDN) partner to significantly reduce the amount of time that backup copies persist."

Amusingly, after publishing the 2010 followup, Facebook appeared to delete my photos from its CDN that I had linked in the piece. The company never offered me any explanation, but my photos were the only ones that were deleted at that time.

But with the process not expected to be finished until a couple months from now—and unfortunately, with a company history of stretching the truth when asked about this topic—we'll have to see it before we believe it.

A multi-billion company who is based on linking data together cannot successfully delete pictures upon user request? Yeah, like anybody will buy that excuse.