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If you’re trying to hide the content from someone who has access to the edit history, editing it is ineffective and simply shows that you wish for it to be hidd

If you’re trying to hide the content from someone who has access to the edit history, editing it is ineffective and simply shows that you wish for it to be hidden. When would this be an issue? In court. It’s true that editing could serve to hide it from other users, but privacy settings could do that also.

davvolun 7y ago
I'm still not following -- in court for what? This is information that you originally put out, wrote down on Facebook, so it's not that you're hiding something you didn't want anyone to know originally. If it was libelous or something so you wanted to delete it after the fact, it's still likely possible to get it back -- even if Facebook deleted the actual message in the database, there's likely a number of methods -- server logs, db logs, cached resources, db backups, or even a simple screenshot -- that would likely be sufficient proof.
- code_duck 7y ago
  Plenty of people post things that they shouldn't have and regret. It could be plainly incriminating, like when people ill-advisedly make a post essentially admitting to a crime, threatening someone, or discussing events related to a lawsuit in public. It's possible deleting or obscuring such a post could even be construed to be destruction of evidence. http://www.wassom.com/delete-at-your-own-risk-spoliation-of-social-media-evidence.html http://www.wassom.com/delete-at-your-own-risk-spoliation-of-... As far as the rest of your post, i believe that is exactly what I was asserting originally.
  - davvolun 7y ago
    Point being, the ability to edit and view edit history changes very little with regard to the courts. Instead of needing to present Facebook with a subpoena for information from e.g. logs, you're able to simply view history. It doesn't change anything whether you can delete the data or "delete" the data, it just changes how accessible it is.

davvolun 7y ago

I'm still not following -- in court for what? This is information that you originally put out, wrote down on Facebook, so it's not that you're hiding something you didn't want anyone to know originally. If it was libelous or something so you wanted to delete it after the fact, it's still likely possible to get it back -- even if Facebook deleted the actual message in the database, there's likely a number of methods -- server logs, db logs, cached resources, db backups, or even a simple screenshot -- that would likely be sufficient proof.

code_duck 7y ago
Plenty of people post things that they shouldn't have and regret. It could be plainly incriminating, like when people ill-advisedly make a post essentially admitting to a crime, threatening someone, or discussing events related to a lawsuit in public. It's possible deleting or obscuring such a post could even be construed to be destruction of evidence. http://www.wassom.com/delete-at-your-own-risk-spoliation-of-social-media-evidence.html http://www.wassom.com/delete-at-your-own-risk-spoliation-of-... As far as the rest of your post, i believe that is exactly what I was asserting originally.
- davvolun 7y ago
  Point being, the ability to edit and view edit history changes very little with regard to the courts. Instead of needing to present Facebook with a subpoena for information from e.g. logs, you're able to simply view history. It doesn't change anything whether you can delete the data or "delete" the data, it just changes how accessible it is.