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Facebook does not erase user-deleted content
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Wed Apr 28 15:35:52 2010
Facebook does not erase user-deleted content
By Zack Whittaker, ZDNet
April 28th, 2010
Nearly a year on since Cambridge University researchers discovered that
Facebook, along with other major social networks, doesn't erase
server-side copies of your uploaded data, the world's biggest social
network is still guilty of such a sin.
Since then, the site has nearly doubled in size. It's now has the
population of the third biggest country in the world, with tens of
thousands of servers holding your data, which as soon as it is uploaded,
belongs to them to do as and what they wish with it.
Four US Senators are jumping on the privacy bandwagon concerned over
users' privacy. As Sam Diaz points out, profile data by third-party
developers (ie. anybody who can write an "application" for the site:
"…used to be limited to 24 hours but that was recently lifted by
Facebook. At the f8 conference last week, the executives said this was
more of a technicality and suggested that it wasn't as big of a deal as
it might sound."
For the rest of the article see:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=4808&tag=wrapper;col1
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