How to find and delete data Google keeps about you

Re:How to find and delete data Google keeps about you by curiousgal on Friday February 14, 2020 @06:46AM (#22325803)

All it probably does is switch a Deleted field to True.

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Re:How to find and delete data Google keeps about you by throwaway1777 on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:14AM (#22325929)

Just in case you want to get it back some day!

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Re:How to find and delete data Google keeps about you by shadowgovt on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:55AM (#22327562)

You joke, but accidental deletion of critical information is more common than desired deletion of sensitive information, which is exactly why services have soft deletion: most users want it.

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Re:How to find and delete data Google keeps about you by einpoklum on Friday February 14, 2020 @09:24AM (#22326760)

Like the day your security services interrogator tells you to get it back.

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Re:How to find and delete data Google keeps about you by aivisol on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:03AM (#22325877)

Softdelete - its a very popular concept.

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Re:How to find and delete data Google keeps about you by fsajkdnjk on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:51AM (#22327529)

you are 100% correct. one day i found my 5 months old comments on youtube, which i deleted. i expect someone had restored a backup due to some kind of failure. so yeah, 100% breach of GDPR right there. but an individual, that is the product here, cannot do shit about it, that's just a illusion. only government have the power to actually fix this mess.

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