Re:Europe’s New Privacy Rules Favor Google and Facebook
by exergy on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:17AM
(#16910306)
It's not a shell script that you will write each time a user asks for a deletion though, would it? It will be a carefully tested and automated procedure.
It certainly sounds like the possibility of deleting all your users might actually make us all more careful, less gun-slinging, shoot-from-the-hip programmers.
Re:Europe’s New Privacy Rules Favor Google and Facebook
by Matt3o12_ on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:25AM
(#16910355)
It will probably be an SQL query and if software development has thought us anything is that testing is not enough. Proper testing can be very helpful and prevent many errors but it can never prevent all because you just cannot test for all circumstances. This is why backups are helpful and why backups should not be changeable. It is a reason why backups were made on magnetic tab back in the day so it wouldn’t be overridden by mistake. Backups were just as important back when programming wasn’t all about that fast iterating and push updates and fix later – or gun-slinging programming as you call it – as they are now.
Re:Europe’s New Privacy Rules Favor Google and Facebook
by LoSboccacc on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:21AM
(#16910331)
If backups are now live data you need to backup the backups. What happens if the procedure bugs out? It’s backups and scripts all the way down.
The easiest way to comply with it would be have a list with all user deletion requests stored somewhere else and every time you restore from a backup, you also apply this list from the backup. But have you really deleted users if you keep backups?