On: Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

[reaperducer]

I had a similar situation with Facebook.

Set up 2FA with an app called Duo-somethingorother.

Broke my phone.

Trying to use Facebook with new phone requires 2FA. Duo-somethingorother app on the new phone won't authorize my Facebook login because the app on the new phone isn't linked to my Facebook account.

Result: I'm locked out of Facebook

Every year or so I follow Facebook's login authentication steps, including sending photos of my government-issued ID, but nothing happens. Facebook support? What's that?

At this point, all I want to log in to Facebook for is to download the photos from my account. But I'm not in Europe, so I have no rights to my photos and nowhere to complain.

You get what you pay for.

[Nextgrid → reaperducer]

> I'm not in Europe, so I have no rights to my photos and nowhere to complain.

If it makes you feel any better, Facebook doesn't care about the law and Europeans don't have any more luck than you do when it comes to this: https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/

[reaperducer → Nextgrid]

An interesting read. Too bad the author made himself look like a kook in his correspondence, and thus ignoreable by Facebook.

I'd like to see an actual lawyer try it and document the effort with similar rigor. I wonder what the response from FB would be.

[Nextgrid → reaperducer]

Considering the GDPR doesn’t really give you the right to sue by yourself and that the best you can hope is for the regulator to fight for your case, I’m not sure the profession of the data subject would matter.

Keep in mind that the regulator who’s supposed to regulate them is corrupt and complicit so it’s very unlikely anything would work.