Comment by pishpash
7 years ago
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...
I doubt that advertisers requesting to have all their information deleted (apart from tax relevant data) would be more successful.
Fuck their paying customers
That's not true. What if you want to support un-delete? That's a reason.
To my knowledge there is and has never been any option to “undelete” your deleted content on Facebook.
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Yes there are, but there are no moral reasons to not comply with it.
If your ethics are such that you believe the state should be able to view data on someone in order to help prosecution of a crime then you could support the retention of data on all users in order to avoid deletions made to hide criminal activity.
Such an ethic creates a moral reasoning to not comply with an individual's wishes in the immediate deletion of data.
(FWIW I'm not defending this position nor suggesting it's the case here, just you said there's no moral reason that can support it, which seems wrong; different ethical systems can provide different reasoned moral outcomes.)
Why, to help people connect better of course...
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