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Facebook allows you to click “delete” on any humiliating picture in your profile. But don’t be fooled: A photo you think is gone can linger on Facebook’s servers for nearly a year and a half.
Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica offers definitive proof: A Facebook picture she “deleted” in May 2009 (below right) and wrote an article about in July 2009 was still on Facebook’s servers today, more than 16 months later. The social network removed the links to the picture right away, but never got around to removing the actual image file, meaning anyone who had or could obtain an URL to the image could get it from Facebook.
