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Why would you even be able to retrieve the number of posts of a deleted account, much less other metadata? It seems like that is the most trivial to hide. The p
by AstralStorm 8y ago
Why would you even be able to retrieve the number of posts of a deleted account, much less other metadata? It seems like that is the most trivial to hide. The posts of a deleted account should be replaced with some sort of deleted marker and impossible to index from old profile or account. Technically trivial to implement even at Google or Facebook scale of replicated world since they do have a unique account ID. The contents would only survive if directly quoted. In case backups are restored, it would be scrubbed again from a blacklist of removed anonymous ids, and that would expire after a reasonable time when the backups should be gone completely.
Hiding behind "too hard" is a dumb cop out. Regulatory agencies should not buy it ever.
- chatmasta 8y agoI think GP was referring to counting the number of OTHER people (I.e. still active users) who wrote a post on the deleted person’s wall. Still, there is no way I know of to get posts an active account made on an inactive wall, and you would need to get those posts for a significant number of the inactive user’s friends. Probably a bit of a convoluted example but I see the point GP is making.