Retaining data can mean violating legal obligations. Hidden backups can be a lawyers playground.
For technical reasons, you never immediately delete records, as it is computationally very intense.
For business reasons, you never want to delete anything at all, because data = money.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Sure. Go ahead and find them based on pure speculation. First you have to put down $100k for all the forensics. Even if you would win the case, show me who is capable of doing something like that.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Thought it could be a liability sometimes! Maybe that ship sailed
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Back in the day, before virtualized services was all “the cloud” as it is today, if you were re-provisioning storage hardware resources that might be used by another customer, you would “scrub” disks by writing from /dev/random and /dev/null to the disk. If you somehow kept that shit around and something “leaked”, that was a big boo boo and a violation of your service agreement and customer would sue the fuck out of you. But now you just contact support and they have a copy laying around. 🤷