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A promise not to touch data is not a deletion. If you can recreate the private data from backups, you did not comply with the deletion request.
by madez 9y ago
A promise not to touch data is not a deletion. If you can recreate the private data from backups, you did not comply with the deletion request.
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- ewjordan 9y agoMost lawyers seem to be advising the opposite, though, and say that backups are ok - do you have some knowledge here, or are you arguing the spirit of the law?
- IAmEveryone 9y agoBackups are fine because they are short-lived. You obviously have a reasonable amount of time to implement a request for deletion, say a week or two. If you are keeping year-old “backups”, that’s actually an archive. The difference shouldn’t be too difficult to understand because year-old data is obviously useless if you have restore your database.