Title: I have a Facebook account that I setup in 2011 and never used. I made one friend, which was my wife and then disabled the account. No posts, no photos, no likes, nothing.<p>A few months ago I started receiving update notifications to the email account it was setup with that I&#x27;ve been ignoring. That was until I noticed I had received a suggestion to join a colon cancer support group a few weeks ago.<p>To send me that came across as highly invasive and instantly had me wondering what Facebook was silently compiling and inferring about me and my family.<p>I recovered my password and logged into my account, had a look at what details I had in there, changed my DOB wondering why I had added it (I normally enter a fake (correct year but Jan 1), who was being suggested as a friend, where it was suggesting I live, and then attempted to download the data dump that Facebook had on me before I delete the account permanently.<p>I&#x27;m now locked out unless I upload a driver&#x27;s license or passport id to prove my identity.<p>Given that Facebook shouldn&#x27;t know anything about me: no photos, no address or phone number (unless they have that from my now deleted WhatsApp account); they shouldn&#x27;t be able to confirm my identity, unless they are storing information I have not given them or by inferring information via my wife.<p>So I&#x27;m stuck. Any suggestions other than going back to ignoring Facebook?
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