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Re:Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its servers... by throw_me_2020 on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:00PM (#24159629)
Deletion is very much a technical/organizational challenge.

Imagine some engineer writing some feature you've never heard of and they decide they need data in a different format. They write a job to do this.

Now imagine that job somehow has a bug which prevents the deletion system from understanding that copy exists. That bug could be non-obvious to find.

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