Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

  • hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip
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    20 hours ago

    I was under the impression that Google just didn’t delete data — ever. Like, it’s way more valuable compared to the cost of the disk.

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      18 hours ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if this is actually what happened here… tech companies in general don’t delete data if they can avoid it. I worked for companies that would just set deleted = 1 in the DB on delete calls. Google has more ability than anyone else to put that data to use