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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoso they never should have persisted that data to begin with, right? and if they didn’t persist it, they wouldn’t need to retain it
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, it’s more complicated than that.
Of course, data is persisted somewhere, in a transient fashion, for the purpose of computation.
And then promptly deleted or otherwise garbage collected in some manner.
A court order forcing them to no longer garbage, collect or delete data used for processing is a problem.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think it’s debatable whether storing in volatile memory is persisting, but ok. And by debatable I mean depends on what is happening exactly.
what, are they going to do memory dumps before every free() call?
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean at this point you’re just being intentionally obtuse no? You are correct of course, volatile memory if you consider it from a system point of view would be pretty asinine to try and store.
However, we’re not really looking at this from a system’s view are we? Clearly you ignored all the other examples I provided just to latch on to the memory argument. There are many other ways that this data could be stored in a transient fashion.