Are such actions on the part of VKontakte legal?

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Maxim2017-03-02 11:51:37

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Maxim, 2017-03-02 11:51:37

Are such actions on the part of VKontakte legal?

Found an interesting bug today. Information appeared on my page that I deleted a long time ago:
House:
XXX, Egorova st., 9
2007–2008
When editing the profile, this information is not available. The removal was about 7 years ago. I have heard a lot that VKontakte stores "deleted" photos due to disk fragmentation, but I did not think that deleted content remains with tags, i.e. you can find out which person it belongs to. Obviously, if I delete something, then I don't want it to be associated with me. If they have the technical ability to hide information, then there should definitely not be any problems deleting the connection. What prevents to do UPDATE table SET profile_id = NULL ... ?
Are such actions on the part of VKontakte legal?

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Egor Kazantsev, 2017-03-02
@saintbyte

Under Durov, this was not the case.

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mletov, 2017-03-02
@mletov

The eternal question)
On the one hand, there is a user agreement with which you agreed.
On the other hand, there is the "right to be forgotten" law and various rules/restrictions on the processing of personal data. And they may well turn out to be a priority than a tick. And then anything can be crammed into the user agreement, because no one reads it, for example, "I undertake to transfer my property to the VK administration, and also donate my right kidney to it." Since there were no such precedents (at least, I have not heard), therefore, the PS is far from omnipotent.
You should ask this question in a legal forum. Here, basically, everyone will practice wit.

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Chtotoro, 2017-03-02
@Chtotoro

Yes, it's legal. We read the user agreement.
You can use the right to be forgotten and contact the VK support service. It is possible that the administration will manually clean everything up.
No, the information itself will never be deleted from the service. This is a very handy feeder.

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GavriKos, 2017-03-02
@GavriKos

To understand whether certain actions are legal, you need to open the user agreement with which you agreed when registering and read it carefully. All the "legalities" are spelled out there. And you agree with him.

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VMesser, 2017-03-03
@VMesser

But I have a following theoretical question: can deleting records from the database not be done at all, but simply deactivate them by the value of the corresponding field? What will the backends say?