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No offense to you, but why should I trust you or Google that what you say is true? I can have my neighbors pinky swear that they won't break into my house, but
by CaptSpify 10y ago
No offense to you, but why should I trust you or Google that what you say is true? I can have my neighbors pinky swear that they won't break into my house, but I still choose to lock my door every day.
- amscanne 10y agoYou lock your doors because you don't trust your _neighbors_? That's madness. Companies often face legal requirements that your data is truly gone, e.g. see the European Union's Data Protection Directive. So it's not just a pinky swear -- there is some legal force behind it. (Which happens to be true for the neighbor situation as well, so you really don't need to get pinky swears from everyone.)
- throwaway2016a 10y agoUnfortunately in the US it is the opposite. The government often forces you (or at least tries to force you) to not delete it incase they want it later. Especially if you are an Internet Service Provider.
- CaptSpify 10y agoI don't lock my door because there's a lot of people around that I don't trust. My neighbors are some of them. I don't know half of them by name. Why should I trust them? > Companies often face legal requirements that your data is truly gone, e.g. see the European Union's Data Protection Directive. Maybe that's part of the difference. In the US you have to keep records of stuff. At my company, we have to keep records for ~7 years, IIRC.