alt Hacker NewsNo, sorry. Promising to permanently delete data without doing it is the madness and should be illegal if it's not already. Hide the permeantly delete for privacy just a bit further and offer a soft delete to the user then for the normal case.
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Bitu79 • today at 7:06 AM
Exactly! This is my problem too, because they are lying. Promising to permanently delete data without actually doing it is insane, and it should be illegal if it isn't already. Hide the permanent deletion a bit more for privacy reasons, and normally offer a soft delete to the user. But they are just lying!
But that's silly. If you don't trust a website with your cat photo, don't upload your cat photo the website.
As I said above, the only thing my site does with your cat photo is show it back to you when you ask to look at it. No training. No selling your data to anybody. All I'm doing is storing it because you asked me to, and showing it to the people you ask me to.
You can certainly ask me to stop showing it to people. But please don't get all excited about how your rights have somehow been violated.
The fact is, people click delete buttons without thinking about it. Those people get way more mad when they can't undo that delete than you are now.