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Learning to forget: Why web companies need to archive data

• wallflower 17y ago
  Bruce Schneier's essay "Privacy in the Age of Persistence" goes deeper into the underlying issue. http://www.schneier.com/essay-261.html http://www.schneier.com/essay-261.html
• hassy 17y ago
  As a user I should be able to tell a website that I want it to forget something I'm putting on it after a while. Nothing complicated, say a default setting of one year. Not on sites like Posterous or Flickr, but on sites like Facebook, Twitter, even HN. This isn't likely to happen though without legislation, which is a shame.
  • nfnaaron 17y ago
    Why not on Posterous or Flickr? Not everyone wants every post or photo to persist. Or, more practically: if this were convention or law, why would Posterous or Flickr be exempt? BTW I like this idea.
    • arockwell 17y ago
      Deleting information posted publicly isn't practical. Your posts are likely to be archived in numerous places (e.g. google cache or archive.org).
      • nfnaaron 17y ago
        True, but still ...
    • hassy 17y ago
      > Why not on Posterous or Flickr? Sure, some people would want that. I'd use the setting on Facebook, maybe on Twitter too, but not on my Posterous.
• nfnaaron 17y ago
  The HN title is different enough from the actual title to mean almost completely the opposite.