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The article specifies that messages older than 2014 were deleted. I read once (can't find the resource now) that Microsoft deletes all chat and email messages o
by jamra 9y ago
The article specifies that messages older than 2014 were deleted. I read once (can't find the resource now) that Microsoft deletes all chat and email messages older than a certain date.
I think the reason is legal. If ever subpoenaed, providing too much chat info could be potentially damaging. I feel like the insinuation is that something specifically nefarious is going on. They can delete private messages in their own chat program for their executives as much as they want to. I also don't understand why this is considered bad behavior or why people somehow think something nefarious had to occur for them to want to do so. It may just be standard practice at many giant corporations.
- jonathankoren 9y ago1) Users are explicitly not allowed to do this. You can delete things in your inbox, you can’t delete things in other people’s inboxes. 2) It convienely starts happenening right when FB finds themselves in a shitshow, and with a CEO that famously said, “They trust me — dumb fucks”. There is no evidence that this is anything except something very very new. 3) Document retention policies only work for your company. Not someone else’s. I have no right to go into your documents and shred things I no longer want you to have.
- jamra 9y agoThose are not bad points, but is there any evidence that this happened recently? I didn’t find that part in the article.
- jonathankoren 9y agoI certainly took the article to be implying that this was new behavior, but now seems to have been something they secretly started back in 2014 or so. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/6/17203114/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-messages-deleted-messenger-inbox https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/6/17203114/facebook-mark-zuc...