Facebook Data Retention?

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Submission + - Facebook Data Retention? (facebook.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30, 2011 @09:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: I know that Facebook has been pretty shady with keeping people's data, and is generally all about maximizing what they can retain, but I thought that deleting my account would eliminate everything from them. Now, a year after I deleted my account (full delete, not deactivate), I found reason to rejoin. Surprisingly, when I came back on, Facebook suggested all of my old friends to me again. What gives?

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