Gregory's Server@frankrausch Bet they haven't though. Nobody is *ever* going to go through all the backup tapes with a pair of scissors and snip out your information, for example.
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@Flies4no1 @TimWardCam @frankrausch By that time it could get leaked, sold, or subpeonaed  @Flies4no1 @frankrausch Maybe. After the "we have to keep everything for six years in case of a tax audit" has expired (in the case of any business you have financial dealings with).  @TimWardCam @frankrausch they do. At company I work we have long backups and yes there is a deletion concept inside them for when a user demands their data deletion. Including analytics. @hey @frankrausch OK, so there are some exceptions to my "nobody". I am aware that some big data data stores have added cobbled-together half-arsed slow manual deletion features which they tell you "use only for GDPR, you can't delete from this data store as part of your application logic, this feature is just too slow and flaky". @TimWardCam If you can find any company in EU or USA which doesn't delete all the user data within 12 months upon delete request, contact either a privacy adminstration in any country or EU directly and the company will pay you + court orders fines. EU is bad for most things, but GPDR actually works in black and white manner.  @TimWardCam @frankrausch i'd be so happy if all these shitty cost cutting companies actually HAD backups. @adora @frankrausch Most people have systems which, they fondly believe, MAKE backups. What's clever is also having systems that occasionally check to see whether the backups have actually been made and can actually be READ. @TimWardCam @frankrausch i've never worked somewhere that didn't have a backup that wasn't just essentially a "folder on primary" or something equally stupid. forget restore tests, they don't pass the logic tests @adora @TimWardCam @frankrausch This reminds me of the financial collapse in 2008 when people found out the banks didn't have much documentation for credit cards and sometimes mortgages. |
@TimWardCam @frankrausch Assuming the backups are cyclical - your data will get purged *in the end*.