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What makes you think even deleting one's account will truly wipe data? These companies profit from personal info whether one is a customer or not. I would imag
by lozf 6y ago
What makes you think even deleting one's account will truly wipe data?
These companies profit from personal info whether one is a customer or not. I would imagine everything exists with a "user de-activated since $DATE" entry or similar in their database.
Perhaps I'm too cynical?
- bryan_w 6y agoActually I think the incentives are aligned here. If they can't show the pictures that they have claimed to have deleted then they can't use it to bring in eyes for advertisers, which means that the data is a net loss for them, causing them to have to buy more storage sooner. They should want to delete data as soon as possible
- lozf 6y agoHmm yes, they probably free up the bulk of space and just keep extensive metadata instead: "We don't have the picture, but we know you took one at date, time, location, make & model, shutter speed & aperture, and we regognized the faces of these 2 users X & Y, and another non-user for whom we have shadow profile Z wwas also tagged."