The FB issue is alive and well in the US also. Here is a link that should work for folks on this side of the pond. I have doubts about the deletion of our data.

My wife left Facebook over a year ago with their promise that after x amount of time her records would be totally deleted.  When our grandson started using FB she went back. Her account was there intact as she left it.

http://gigaom.com/2010/04/22/your-moms-guide-to-those-facebook-changes-and-how-to-block-them/

My solution: All 400 million users use their regular FB time to do nothing but play Farmville. If we post, post only a nursery rhyme. i.e. Mary Had A Little Lamb.
Would it take six months before FB was gone?