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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by philjohn on Saturday May 26, 2018 @12:53PM (#17162991)
How long are you keeping backups in cold storage for - usually you'd want maybe 6 months there, but no more, otherwise it's just going to grow unbounded and become a financial burden.
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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by contravariant on Saturday May 26, 2018 @04:53PM (#17164191)
That's certainly a valid point, but it still doesn't solve the problem of having to remember to delete something in the event of data loss.

As far as I can tell to comply with a deletion request with absolute certainty requires infallible storage (which would remove the need for backups) or modifying backups (which contradicts the concept of a backup). Maybe you can claim 'force majeure' at some point, but perfect compliance seems impossible.

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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by daveFNbuck on Saturday May 26, 2018 @05:02PM (#17164229)
It's impossible to have absolute certainty about almost anything. That's not what the law requires.
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