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Privacy issues: Here's how to delete your Facebook, Instagram profiles

Lost faith in Facebook after data leakages, breaches and too much noise? Here's a guide to breaking up with the social network and its photo-sharing app for good

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Brian X. Chen | NYT
You may have decided enough is enough: It’s time to delete Facebook.
 
There have been months — or is it years now? — of bad news about the social network. In October, Facebook revealed that a security vulnerability exposed up to 50 million accounts to being hijacked by hackers. Through the vulnerability, a hacker could take over your account — meaning anything you ever posted on Facebook, or even apps that you connected with using your Facebook account, could have been infiltrated.
 
“People’s privacy and security is incredibly important, and we’re sorry this happened,” the company said at

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