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Probably soft deleted or with TTL + archiving. Hard delete is very technically challenging at that scale.
by nextworddev 2y ago
Probably soft deleted or with TTL + archiving. Hard delete is very technically challenging at that scale.
- lolinder 2y agoCan you elaborate on what about the scale of "a few devices and one user's iCloud backup" makes hard delete challenging? A 30-day period seems like plenty of time to propagate the "Alice really does want to delete this photo on 6/21" message to all devices and all servers where you might have backups. And even if it is challenging, it shouldn't even need to be said that soft deleting photos of all things would be completely and totally irresponsible. This isn't some metadata in a business app, some of those deleted photos are extremely sensitive.
- fallingsquirrel 2y agoThe bug happened offline, on devices with cloud syncing disabled. Hard delete isn't challenging in a single-device scenario.
- smolder 2y agoIt's technically unchallenging, but is challenging to the goals of surveillance capitalism/states.
- lnxg33k1 2y agoThey should say it, so people could find alternatives for their photos, if they’re incapable of handling that, is understandable, the surprise, makes it annoying