After pressure from the UK, and the NY Times, not to mention the thousands of ex-users and privacy advocates everywhere, facebook conceded to allow users to permanently delete their profiles. And because of this, the UK watchdog ICO (Information Commissioners Office) have decided to drop their investigation against facebook. If you need to remove your facebook profile, visit the link [here] to get instructions on how to do so. I must admit, the first thing I did when I found out was to reactivate my account, then follow the instructions to get it removed permanently. Not that there’s anything wrong with using facebook, of course, just that when you don’t want to use it any more, it’s frustrating that they don’t remove your details permanently. After all, any company that prevents you from removing personal information about yourself are obviously there to use it to their advantage, not yours – which can’t be a good thing. [SHOW ME]