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Or how about just letting your data vanish, except for items you've made a specific effort to save (e.g. your own original writing or musical compositions)? Te

Or how about just letting your data vanish, except for items you've made a specific effort to save (e.g. your own original writing or musical compositions)? Technologists seem preoccupied with creating perfect recollection, seemingly without realizing that people who have this ability innately often find it burdensome. Given my druthers, I wouldn't retrieve my data from a service, I'd purge it.

nine_k 7y ago
In either case, you control the destiny of your data, either forcing it to an archive or to /dev/null. The problem is exactly the lack of such control. Frankly, if you let the data out, there's no guarantee a copy of them does not linger somewhere. Having companies have an incentive to get rid of your data after some time, for profit reasons, might be helpful. For instance, work email is usually purged promptly after the mandatory retention period expires, so that it could not be used in litigation.