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That's a good point. I think google doesn't delete anything unless the law forces them to do so.
by tartoran 6y ago
That's a good point. I think google doesn't delete anything unless the law forces them to do so.
- jefftk 6y agoThat's not correct. If you delete things they are actually deleted, though it does take a few months to be gone from everywhere. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19965615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19965615, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12980863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12980863, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809320, etc) (Disclosure: I work for google, speaking only for myself)
- bird_monster 6y agoI wouldn't believe that Google deletes data even if they wrote it in stone.
- tartoran 6y agoI believe what you say that it gets deleted. What I am not sure is whether it gets copied somewhere else for long term storage or some data mining, thing that you may not be aware of. I doubt you know everything that happens at google but I might be wrong there as I don't know who exactly is that I am talking to. Regardless, google has lost my trust completely and am not sure if it is possible to recover it and go back to the "do no evil stage" anymore.
- bird_monster 6y agoYeah - I believe this person believes that a set of data in its original state gets full-deleted. I do not believe that that data, in all of its forms, gets deleted from all of its storage locations. I'd hazard a guess that Google doesn't even have the ability to know whether it's been fully deleted across all of its storage locations even if they wanted to.