Comment by bitexploder
7 years ago
Disclaimer: I deleted my Facebook account a couple years ago and never looked back.
That said, Facebook is who is just getting collectively stabbed with the pitchfork right now. Engineering best practices are one thing. My right to privacy is another. As an engineer I care about efficiency. As a human I care about privacy. My rights win over any technocratic babble. Sorry if I am being harsh. I am, of course not surprised. Engineers are lazy at best and at worst, something truly sinister is brewing.
I agree that you have the right to privacy, but there's also technical reasons why instant deletion is not always possible. If they can guarantee that the data will be gone after X days, then that's fair to me.
Yeah, that works. A best effort of actual deletion is good enough IMO. Maybe even notification it is actually done being sweeped out of a storage system.