Privacy laws in most Western countries outside the US (at least all of Western Europe) are based on the principle that you own your data.
The rest simply follows from that. If you tell Facebook to remove your data, they are, within reason, obliged to honor that request.
Now that photo may still be out there if it has been copied (of course when then come into the realm of copyright and such), but Facebook should no longer have it in their dataset, let alone be publishing it.
The privacy angle isn't about the photo being public, it's about Facebook having it in their database along with all the other stuff they have on you.
This is why American companies like Google and Facebook tend to run afoul of European privacy laws: even if the data they collect comes purely from public sources, doesn't mean they have the right to collect, and especially collate it. At least not in the European concept of privacy.
The rest simply follows from that. If you tell Facebook to remove your data, they are, within reason, obliged to honor that request.
Now that photo may still be out there if it has been copied (of course when then come into the realm of copyright and such), but Facebook should no longer have it in their dataset, let alone be publishing it.
The privacy angle isn't about the photo being public, it's about Facebook having it in their database along with all the other stuff they have on you.
This is why American companies like Google and Facebook tend to run afoul of European privacy laws: even if the data they collect comes purely from public sources, doesn't mean they have the right to collect, and especially collate it. At least not in the European concept of privacy.