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Data should never be deleted. Ever. Start by accepting that, and everything starts to make sense.
by miguelrochefort 8y ago
Data should never be deleted. Ever.
Start by accepting that, and everything starts to make sense.
- cortesoft 8y agoChild porn? Video of you in the bathroom that someone took from a hidden camera? Your stolen financial information?
- mirimir 8y agoSure, of course. But the problem is that if you can delete that stuff, someone else can delete stuff that you don't want to be deleted.
- cortesoft 8y agoIf you don't want something deleted, you can always keep a copy of it yourself.
- mirimir 8y agoYes, but only if you manage that before it's gone.
- pault 8y agoExactly. Which means you can't delete your bathroom video from any networked system. See the Streisand effect.
- fjs11jx 8y agoThat is _literaly_ what we already have. If you delete (unpin) content, others are free to keep it (pinned). The OP was suggesting a way to delete things from other peoples machines.
- miguelrochefort 8y agoNo. It's unreasonable to expect they could be deleted.
- Grustaf 8y agoThat’s just a dogmatic statement, you need to motivate it.
- miguelrochefort 8y agoIt's unreasonable to expect to be able to delete data that's been released publicly. Any attempt to delete arbitrary data will either fail or involve extreme authoritarian measures. Once you accept that, you can focus on reducing the output of compromising information, rather than trying to erase it after the fact. Prevention over cure. This will inevitably lead to a society where people do more of what society wants, and less of what society doesn't. This is a good thing. Also, I feel like we don't collect as much information as we should. Analytics is a lot less comprehensive than it should. Other than CCTVs, real-world analytics is basically non-existent. This greatly inhibits progress in AI/ML.
- Grustaf 8y agoHow does “should never be” follow from “difficult in practice”?