The social network Facebook will completely erase the photos deleted by users from its servers. Until now, such pictures were only hidden, but all of them could also be viewed via a direct link.
The social network Facebook is one of the most popular communities of this kind in the global Internet environment. Every day millions of users download and delete a huge number of personal photos on this resource. Naturally, most of them are concerned about the fate of their own photographs.
Until now, Facebook has not followed any fixed deadlines for deleting photos from servers. This fact provoked numerous user complaints.
But in February 2012, the company acknowledged the problem. As representatives of Facebook explained, the reason for this situation is the old system of storing photos that were uploaded by users at the early stages of the development of the social network, in fact, several years ago. Although, according to the netizens themselves, problems have arisen with the recently added graphic files.
The new system that regulates the storage of deleted user photos sets a maximum time limit for the permanent removal of graphic files from Facebook servers. It is equal to thirty days after the user's request, in some cases, links to photos will stop working even faster.
The social network Facebook has previously been criticized due to the principles of storage, as well as the use of personal data and user content. For example, the day before, the German authorities resumed an investigation against the resource. They accuse its executives of creating a large database of personal photos of users without regard to their consent. This was done, according to the German authorities, to ensure the operation of face recognition technology.
Facebook has agreed to conduct independent privacy reviews of users' data for a period of 20 years.
