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When storage is cheap, it's rational to develop the delete flag first and think about cleanup later, which means never. The download content thing seems like a
by pishpash 9y ago
When storage is cheap, it's rational to develop the delete flag first and think about cleanup later, which means never. The download content thing seems like a low priority project and the poor intern who probably did it didn't want to figure out how each store keeps the delete flag. At least it's honest. Would you be surprised a dd of your sd card showed your deleted photos?
- paulie_a 9y agoStorage being cheap is irrelevant..when a user requests the data to be deleted. You delete it. Outside of government compliance there is no reason to not comply with that request
- sgtmas2006 9y agoYes there are, but there are no moral reasons to not comply with it.
- scottmf 9y agoWhy, to help people connect better of course...
- vidarh 9y agoThere might be something to that, in the sense that I could very well see someone in a meeting ask 'well, but what do we do when another user is tagged in a photo' followed by discussion rationalising why that person shouldn't lose out because someone wants to delete data, and someone coming up with the 'solution' of effectively reference counting the data and figuring out when to actually purge the underlying file later (i.e. never)
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoIf your ethics are such that you believe the state should be able to view data on someone in order to help prosecution of a crime then you could support the retention of data on all users in order to avoid deletions made to hide criminal activity. Such an ethic creates a moral reasoning to not comply with an individual's wishes in the immediate deletion of data. (FWIW I'm not defending this position nor suggesting it's the case here, just you said there's no moral reason that can support it, which seems wrong; different ethical systems can provide different reasoned moral outcomes.)
- kbsletten 9y agoThat's not true. What if you want to support un-delete? That's a reason.
- scottmf 9y agoTo my knowledge there is and has never been any option to “undelete” your deleted content on Facebook.
- bigiain 9y ago<cynical view> When a _customer_ requests data to be deleted, you delete it. Pretty sure Facebook have probably complied with every user-data-deletion request they've ever got from their paying customers - because advertisers are well know for wanting access to less data about the cattle...