rayleney

Hmm, I've been working on FB privacy for about ~2 years now so maybe that's related? (Just kidding, don't quote me on that)

Real answer: I don't think there's been a "turning point" in that as long as I have worked here we have always taken privacy extremely seriously. It's baked into every change we make and every product we create, and that hasn't changed at all. Today, we care a lot about understanding how people on Facebook use our privacy tools and how best we can help them. That's one of the biggest/main goals of our team today.

Short answer = yes, we can delete your photo from Facebook, and it's something we commit to in our data use policy.

But, there's a lot of ways people can copy or share your photos on the internet, and there's not really a foolproof way to obliterate something entirely from the rest of the internet (especially if someone's posted it on other sites, etc.)

For FB specifically, we have really robust ways we store data including backups we can use if something gets lost, so it takes some time for the deletion changes to trickle out into our storage systems. (~90 days for deleting an entire account for example) The photo won't be accessible when this is happening though.

I actually just found out about it probably a few minutes before you did :)

I'm curious/excited to see how our companies will work together but I don't know much about it personally.

oops, forgot the most important of the question!

Also, what is your favorite type of sandwich?

It just needs to have really good cheese / be grilled.

& Alex says: anything with pesto

Hello!

Good question -- basically when someone shares something on Facebook w/ a specific privacy setting, we run some code in our php codebase that enforces that the setting is properly expected. I.e. only the people who should be able to see something can.

This generally takes the form of individual privacy "rules", that are things like "If this photo is a public photo, anyone can see it".