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Your comment made me wonder how much cost this may save, in terms of storage, maintenance, electricity, etc. Are we talking petabytes of storage? Could the data
by themodelplumber 6y ago
Your comment made me wonder how much cost this may save, in terms of storage, maintenance, electricity, etc. Are we talking petabytes of storage? Could the data include things like imagery or massive encapsulations?
- est31 6y agoThere is no guarantee that this feature doesn't just flip a "deleted" bool column in their database outside of GDPR countries. And maybe derived products of the data stick around for longer, i.e. weights of custom ML models, HMM states, etc.
- el_nino 6y agoIt's also buying good will with users and regulators since privacy became a hot topic in recent times. Google decided to make it a default to delete any data older than 3 or 18 months. This is a clear sign that even 3 month old data has just marginal value, if any.