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Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by xg15 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:57PM (#28779016)
Your point being? Not deleting data for legal reasons is still better than the data being physically impossible to delete.
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Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by almostdigital on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:38PM (#28780306)
A large meteor would delete it just fine.
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Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by spaetzleesser on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:51PM (#28780396)
With distributed data centers it needs to be a quite sizable meteor though. The dinosaur killer asteroid may not be enough if your redundancy is on the other side of the globe.
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Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by xxs on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:08AM (#28783156)
Keep your backup tapes in a safe on the other side of the pond, as they say.
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Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by eyelidlessness on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:01PM (#28780469)
I once worked in a large Meteor codebase and I cannot comment[1].

1: I can, nothing catastrophic happened. Other than the Meteor codebase.

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