

Something I never see mentioned in discussions about privacy and “deleting your data”: all of these websites store information in databases, and databases are (usually) backed up on a regular schedule. This means that the databases in their entirety are written to tape or optical drive or whatever format, in a form where they could be remounted/restored in their entirety if necessary. Even if your data is “deleted” from the current active instance of a database, no company goes into all (or any) of the backed-up copies of that database to delete that same data there (and even when you delete something from the current active instance of a database, the deletions are logged in the audit tables and so are never truly “deleted”).
So it is impossible in a practical sense to truly delete your personal data, regardless of what any law says. It’s not even possible to make it inaccessible to AI, since most likely when websites sell their data to AI companies, they are selling database backups that predate AI.
“At least you don’t need botox for your chin.” -Thanos