If your data is being uploaded to a remote endpoint, it's gone. Yeah, we have stuff like GDPR to mitigate the damage, fine people when bad stuff happens. But

If your data is being uploaded to a remote endpoint, it's gone. Yeah, we have stuff like GDPR to mitigate the damage, fine people when bad stuff happens. But ultimately it's _gone_. What actually happens to it is almost immaterial because most of the time, it won't be publicised, and you won't even know. But it's still there, on someone else's server. Gone.