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It's really hard to believe that Google deletes some data permanently. Especially location data, as it's pretty valuable for their core business: ads. Do they d
by zx8080 2y ago
It's really hard to believe that Google deletes some data permanently. Especially location data, as it's pretty valuable for their core business: ads. Do they delete it after some aggregation?
- stubish 2y agoData has value, but it also has a cost. The value tends to decrease over time, and at some point it makes economic sense to destroy it. The cost is interesting, as it might be going up as privacy becomes a bigger issue. Particularly location data, which has been in courts around the world for various reasons.
- SR2Z 2y agoGoogle absolutely deletes data! Even if there were no privacy reasons to do so, the storage costs for old raw data far outweigh its value. That being said, refined/aggregated data is kept around for longer, although even that will eventually be deleted.