https://www.popsci.com/technology/facebook-ends-face-recognition-system/
Just because someone says that they are deleting something, it might be a case of maybe, sort of...
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/11/update-on-use-of-face-recognition/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata#Photographs
https://iptc.org/standards/photo-metadata/photo-metadata/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial_metadata#Definition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recognition#Components
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata#Data_virtualization
Any digital data will still likely be in some server somewhere.