Facebook keeps videos that you never posted

Back in the early days of Facebook, video chat wasn’t really a thing. So if you wanted someone to see your face, you’d turn on your webcam, record a video and put it on a friend’s Facebook wall (note to young’uns: that’s what the timeline was called back in 2009). But it turns out that if you didn’t like a take and decided to re-record it, Facebook may have kept the original anyway.

A report from New York Mag’s Select All details the personal experiences of several individuals who downloaded their data archives from Facebook and found different takes of videos that they hadn’t published.