### Facebook's memory will not fade - Spring (2021), when the information of 500 million people is called up again.
In April 2021, an incident came to light in which the personal information of more than 533 million people from Facebook (now Meta) was released to a hacker forum for free. Names, phone numbers, places of residence, places of employment, and other information that outlines individuals reappeared in the public domain, available to anyone.
Facebook explained that "this is old data that was corrected in 2019," but the times did not accept that excuse. In 2021, when people had entrusted much of their lives to the digital space under the pandemic, the "stale" nature of information did not exonerate it from vulnerability.
Even after the Cambridge Analytica incident in 2018, the attitude of data management remained unchanged, and in the EU, the Irish supervisory authority launched an investigation due to alleged GDPR violations. The spill was no longer an incident of the past, but proof that "once exposed, information lives forever".
Facebook may have turned even our memories into a commodity at the cost of convenience. That spring, the information of 500 million people quietly told us that there is no such thing as a "right to forget" in this world.
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