> Scott says he thinks there should be legal or regulatory requirements on companies that give people the option to retrieve their data, for a certain period –

> Scott says he thinks there should be legal or regulatory requirements on companies that give people the option to retrieve their data, for a certain period – say, five years – after an online service is due to shut down. I get the motivation here, but in addition to keeping the stored data, this means one must keep account and authentication systems, maintain a service and UI for people to request this data, etc for years. That seems like an excessive obligation, depending on what the product was which took in the data to begin with. What data should be eligible? If I ordered delivery from a service which folded, should I really be able to request my order records years later?