The question of whether we’ll be uploading our consciousness to a computer is no longer if. It’s probably when. That’s because these digital consciousnesses – our essences – will likely be the product of an AI’s interpretation of ourselves. The breadcrumbs we’ll leave across digital files, images, videos, audio recordings, and, of course, all that social media will be an ample resource to reconstruct you.
You can’t actually delete your Facebook account, though. They just mark it as deleted in the database, but can absolutely still use the information.
Is it sure? I’ve done it 15 years ago but I remember clearly there was an option to delete everything. Could it be that it’s only for EU?
It’s pretty rare to actually delete data from a database. It’s almost always flagged in a way that the system is supposed to ignore.
But even if you’ve never had a Facebook account, they create a shadow profile by tracking you through the share on Facebook buttons on websites.