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They actually do delete.
by low_battery 10y ago
They actually do delete.
- Teever 10y agoHow do you know this for a fact? If the roles were reversed would you delete? Or would you just like and say you did?
- gradys 10y agoIf I were representing a big, well known company with lots of money to give out in settlements, I'd be much more likely not to say anything than to bother lying.
- smt88 10y agoThat's not universal. When a company screws up, an individual rarely goes down for it. The impact of the crime is often absorbed by many people (or no one).
- untog 10y agoIf I were in charge of a publicly traded company I most definitely wouldn't want a scandal like that lurking beneath the surface. It would absolutely leak.
- nitrogen 10y agoThe existence of classified programs that remain classified and unknown for years is evidence against this oft-used argument.
- red_phone 10y agoThe only reason you know of the existence of these programs is because they leaked...
- frank_jaeger 10y agoWhich would almost certainly imply there exist programs that have never leaked...
- yeowMeng 10y agoie, datasets that are maintained and properly encrypted in a 'CEUE' (Create Encrypt, Update, Encrypt) app.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- asuffield 10y ago(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) I can happily endorse the company's public statements on this subject: personal data will be deleted within the timeframes specified (for obvious technical and that's-a-bad-idea reasons, it's not instant). Part of SRE's function is to arrange for SLAs to be met, including deletion SLAs.
- gravitronic 10y agofrom any data warehouse as well?
- Nitramp 10y agoIt is fully deleted.
- beshrkayali 10y agodoes the data get sent anywhere else before it gets deleted?
- ekianjo 10y agoDont worry the NSA keeps a copy for you just in case.
- dward 10y agoYes. The only way to delete things at scale is to ship them over the network to a dedicated cluster of machines running a proprietary fork of /dev/null. Google has invested man decades into this system and holds numerous patents on the design.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoWhat matters much more than whether Google deletes is whether some other group has access to and stores that data before Google deletes it. Almost assuredly the answer is yes. Search history is a tremendously powerful tool and insightful data point for anyone. There's no way government groups aren't using it. It takes up almost no room for storage, either.
- lucb1e 10y ago> "Search history is a tremendously powerful tool and insightful data point for anyone." Can confirm. Near the end of internships I use my browser history, and mostly the search history contained in that, to figure out what I've done so I don't forget anything in the report. It's a near perfect way to tell what I've been up to any day.
- Nitramp 10y ago> Almost assuredly the answer is yes. [citation required]. Google goes through great lengths to make sure that's not the case, both technically with legal defense against overreaching subpoenas.
- akerro 10y agoNo they don't. They just don't show it to you. They hide your search list, but it's still included in your Google profile.