And water is wet.
Meta has never and will never comply with GDPR in any capacity and the Irish DPO will be more than happy to dish out more fines if stuff like this comes to light.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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Meta and however many other of the giant tech companies.
Often it's cheaper for these services to take fines than it is to change up their operation, by an order of magnitude.
Sidenote - Hey, been a minute.
GDPR fines can scale to a company's yearly revenue. They can absolutely get in more trouble than it's worth if they keep blatantly shitting on the GDPR. Keep reporting them whenever you see these violations.
Water has the ability to make things wet but is not wet in and of itself.
I received the same email and also deleted the account about 9 years ago. They absolutely are keeping account information.
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Yeah I was really disappointed to see that email. They shouldn't have any of my information any longer. Unfortunately I'm a citizen of the United States so we don't have national level protections because our country doesn't give a fuck about our information security or privacy
Are you sure it wasn't a phishing email? With stolen creds?
This was the sender email: notification@email.meta.com
And all links point to meta.com, so no phishing
Check the email headers. You can spoof a sender address
Spoofing a sender while falsifying compliance with SPDIF and DKIM are another matter entirely.
OP, do you know if your email host performs these checks? (The popular webmail services do)
It is a gmail address
Then you are probably fine unless you're a high value target. Gmail checks these, and any such bypass would not be burned on a common target.
I know, already done. Looks fine
All good, just wanted to make sure since it wasn't clear
Thank you anyways for the hint
Did you have an Occulus account?
Damn, yes
That might be it. I received an email on my newer email that I did use for Occulus but not on my old one I had used for Facebook stuff where I deleted my account.
Facebook leaked my mobile phone, where consequently I get sales calls from the other side of planet. I had deleted my account already 6 years prior. I live in the EU btw. F Meta
It seems plausible to me that their GDPR process probably missed some email communication system where the name and email was stored, like a hubspot or something custom. Most places I've seen have a ton of systems with name and email in it, and GDPR processes aren't maintained well across all of the teams using that data.
Not saying it's right, just saying it's possible an account was mostly deleted and the remnants remain in some other tool, and the person you spoke with only knows about their main systems.
Yes, could be possible, but I think this is not acceptable for a company as big as Meta
Agreed it's not acceptable. Unfortunately I don't think GDPR is taken seriously enough. Hopefully at some point the consequences will get better