> A tipster pointed us to the tool, which is well-hidden and apparently only available via a link that is embedded 780 words into a fairly obscure page in Facebook's help section for non-users. The linked text gives no indication that it's sending you to a privacy tool, and simply reads: "Click here if you have a question about the rights you may have."

Do those 780 words include “Beware the Leopard?”

Anyway, here’s the link: [edit] munged the URL because automoderator blocked the original and then failed to let me contact the mods: <fb’s url>.com/contacts/removal

Irony here is that I’ve got FB blocked at so many layers in my network that I needed to go over a vpn in incognito mode to get to the removal page.

Now the question becomes: do you trust Meta enough to provide that form with all your contact info that they may or may not already have?

[edit] after a few tests in contacts I knew they had and ones that I didn’t care whether they had… if they have it, you get a verification code and after you enter it they claim to start the process of removing that contact from their DB. If they DON’T have the contact, they return a generic error when you submit it, prior to any processing. This makes me trust the system a bit more than I otherwise would. I’ll check back later to see if they now have the contacts in their system that used to return an error.