Facebook legal Help?

[Josh2017]

Hi Guys,

I had a Facebook which I created over 11 years ago when I was 16/17. However I deleted this account because I hated Facebook purely from a privacy point of view.

Unknown to me, Facebook reactivated my account sometime within the last year, without sending a notification to my email. I was only alerted when my partner said to me that my profile was online again. So I quickly tried to access my account and quickly delete it.

After logging in Facebook denied me access and asked me to send my proof of identity in a form of Passport, Utility Bill etc. So I uploaded a copy of British Passport. I then received an email 24 hours later to state that the British Passport is not a valid proof of ID (yes it's in date and current), please could I send a Utility bill. So I sent my NPower fuel bill. Again this was not accepted. I have nothing else to send as all my bills/statements are online, trying to be green and all that.

So the issue I have now, is that I have a profile up, which also has a lot of photos up that I don't want my employers and clients seeing...as they may think this is me now! But Facebook won't allow me access to the account to delete it and I have no idea what legal right I have here or what to do about it? Do I now have to pay for a lawyer to write to Facebook to get my account removed?

For something so simple I'm worried I'm going to have to pay for lawyer to write letters to Facebook and on top of that it's the damaging effect this could potentially have on my employment for an account that I deleted many many years ago!

Thanks for any advice in advance!

[Crazy council]

Re: Facebook legal Help?

Have you tried these

https://www.facebook.com/help/132243923516844

https://www.facebook.com/help/215543...ef=faq_content

[Josh2017]

Re: Facebook legal Help?

Thanks for your help but the access isn't the actual issue, I remembered the password and was able to log in, but it's after I log in I can't do anything with my account unless I verify myself to Facebook. But according to them a British Passport is not valid ID nor was the utility bill I provided. So I'm out of options in that sense

[leclerc]

Re: Facebook legal Help?

Try an email to the Managing Director of Facebook in the UK.
Explain what you have done so far and explain that the reason you want to remove the profile is because of x y or z.

[Josh2017]

Re: Facebook legal Help?

Excellent will give that a try!

[Kati]

Re: Facebook legal Help?

and have a look at these too

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/95...-old-accounts-

https://www.facebook.com/help/commun...53644399118583

https://www.quora.com/Did-anyone-exp...ng-it-recently

https://www.bustle.com/articles/6851...nt-permanently

[Josh2017]

Re: Facebook legal Help?

and have a look at these too

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/95...-old-accounts-

https://www.facebook.com/help/commun...53644399118583

https://www.quora.com/Did-anyone-exp...ng-it-recently

https://www.bustle.com/articles/6851...nt-permanently

Hi Kati,

Had a look at those links, think alot of those people must have had the auto reactivate enabled, but i deactivated my Facebook well before any feature like that was enabled. I actually deactivated that account i think before emojis were available! xD On the hacking side, i highly doubt it as my Facebook password would take a high end gaming computer around 6000 years to crack if it was running all its power on all the available Brute Force programs out there.

Regardless, sent a strongly worded email to the MD, will be interesting to see if this gets resolved via that method!

[Kati]

Re: Facebook legal Help?

Regardless, sent a strongly worded email to the MD, will be interesting to see if this gets resolved via that method!

can you keep us updated??

[Josh2017]

Re: Facebook legal Help?

can you keep us updated??

Yeah absolutely, will let you guys know what i did and how i eventually manage to solve it!