Instagram Adds Option to Delete Account in iOS App to Comply With App Store Rules

[jimbobb24]

Sure, the frontend side of things may be deleted, but the backend (including all your data) is never fully purged, especially by the companies like Facebook. And there's nothing you or anyone can do about it. Unless their servers are seized by FBI and intentionally destroyed, your data will live on forever. You'll have to pry those servers from Zuck's cold, dead hands.

If the FBIs seizes them then the data just lives on in another different warehouse.

 

[jimbobb24]

Actually we have more than enough leaks and hacks throughout the years to know that this is not paranoia but basically routine. Companies that say they encrypt everything? Everything in plain text. Companies that say they delete everything? Everything is saved. Companies that say they do not sell your data? Everything is sold. Companies that say they keep no VPN logs? Everything is logged.

There is just another VPN company exposed this week -- the logs, together with other data, could possibly even identify the individual users. Of course, not every company lies about everything, but you don't know which one is lying. And there are also unintentional mistakes. Apple does not e2e encrypt a lot of things, and could be social engineered into offering data, and as reported on this site, may have done so to fake cops. True e2e would have made this impossible.

I am not even paranoid about it. Kind of desensitized to be honest.

Which VPN company? Need to make sure its not mine.

 

[antiprotest]

Which VPN company? Need to make sure its not mine.

It's called Bean VPN.

It's not the first one that allegedly kept logs when they promised not to keep logs (even for paying customers), but it's the most recent example.

Millions of free VPN user records leaked

Bean VPN kept an unprotected database, almost 20GB in size

www.techradar.com

 

[mike090910]

First, most people use real names. BAD IDEA. MAKE it all UP, it is the INTERNET. Then who cares what they have it is not you, but only your friends know it is you.

 

[lJoSquaredl]

How bout you give me the update so I can do chronological order and cut out all the suggested people and videos I have no interest in, still waiting for that feature:/

 

[Solomani]

Instagram is owned by Zuckerberg's Facebook empire... so while the app, account, and iPhone data can be deleted.... we can be sure that whatever data Zuck already collected.... he will hold onto the precious data until the end of time.

 

[Marco Klobas]

I don't know about Facebook stuff (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.).

I can guarantee, though, that I opened a Twitter account ~10 years ago and after a few years I decided to delete it. A few years later, again, I decided to reopen an account with the same username. To my surprise I found that everything was there: my posts (few that I made) and my lists.

Basically, my account was not deleted – just deactivated. All the data was still there.

 

[bollman]

On my iPhone there is this app called settings where I had to create an account with Apple. I fail to find the option to delete said account.
Do Apple not abide by their own rules?

 

[svish]

Happy to see this change.

 

[Mug_narwhal.0m]

I deleted the app long ago when I saw the green dot randomly turn on while I was browsing Instagram. 😂

 

[TestedLion]

First, most people use real names. BAD IDEA. MAKE it all UP, it is the INTERNET. Then who cares what they have it is not you, but only your friends know it is you.