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Not really, soft deletion has saved many people's bacon.

• al_borland 2y ago
  That doesn’t mean soft delete should be the only option. With some of our processes, we soft delete for a period of time (2-4 weeks) to account for mistakes. Then, if on one tries to recover it after that time, it does the actual delete. This seems like a reasonable compromise to me. It offers a safety net, while still getting the job done. With as many data breaches as we see these days, I want my data gone. If someone gets a dump of the DB, a delete flag doesn’t matter. This was the primary reason I never got a DNA test, even though I want to see what my results would be. I never trusted the companies to store that data long term. If I could get a test where a company didn’t store the results after they were provided to me, I’d get one tomorrow.
  • johnisgood 2y ago
    The AT&T leak was huge. :D There was also a leak in either 23andMe or some other company handling DNAs not too long ago (months, maybe 2 years >.>).