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You are forgetting Database back-ups. John Sends an e-mail to Mary, Database gets backed-up, John retracts e-mail. Whether you delete or retain the email info
by maxdemarzi 16y ago
You are forgetting Database back-ups.
John Sends an e-mail to Mary, Database gets backed-up, John retracts e-mail. Whether you delete or retain the email information in your current records, it got saved overnight during the db back-up. If that db was a weekly or monthly backup that you keep for a year or longer, then you have it.
I think it has become extremely difficult to remove all trace of our online actions.
Fight for privacy, but act like you are being watched, otherwise you'll come to regret it sooner or later.
- jmiller_hn 16y agoTrue enough; good point. My concern right now is finding the right balance between (a) doing the Right Thing re privacy and (b) insuring that my site doesn't get sued out of existence because it kept (or didn't keep) some information it should (or shouldn't) have. So: If you (or someone else out there) were writing the code dealing with these parts of the site, would you preserve that information in the database, with the intent of keeping it for an arbitrarily long time, or not keep/delete it?