Comment by 2muchcoffeeman
7 years ago
Maybe the Facebook development processes and tracking of tech debt is just shit. First person: "I'll just flag the content and then it won't show on their timeline!" Second person: "I'll just select all the records that belongs to this account when packaging a backup. All the deleted content should be gone!"
But I wouldn't discount your hypothesis.
When storage is cheap, it's rational to develop the delete flag first and think about cleanup later, which means never. The download content thing seems like a low priority project and the poor intern who probably did it didn't want to figure out how each store keeps the delete flag. At least it's honest. Would you be surprised a dd of your sd card showed your deleted photos?
Storage being cheap is irrelevant..when a user requests the data to be deleted. You delete it. Outside of government compliance there is no reason to not comply with that request
<cynical view> When a _customer_ requests data to be deleted, you delete it. Pretty sure Facebook have probably complied with every user-data-deletion request they've ever got from their paying customers - because advertisers are well know for wanting access to less data about the cattle...
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That's not true. What if you want to support un-delete? That's a reason.
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Yes there are, but there are no moral reasons to not comply with it.
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Maybe they should get someone from the internal department that monitors Facebook employees to come over and show them how to run a tight ship:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/silicon-v...