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Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem... by shadowgovt on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:35PM (#21400966)
In English too, you can retain something to have it, but you can technically also retain to mean "withhold," in the sense that you are keeping it secure or intact and refusing to divulge it.

It's not a very common usage in English though.

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Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem... by CrazyStat on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:53PM (#21404664)
Retain in the sense of withhold makes more sense when you're talking about a physical item that can't be duplicated and shared without limit. I don't think I would use it in that sense when talking about data.
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