On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:48 PM, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > Now, if we can just get a law that when I have ... issued the delete to > the server, it truly was deleted
For what it's worth, Google's caution in promising deletion is probably because it's not quite sure how to do that quickly. Users would be Very Very Angry if a disk outage or a fire in a datacenter resulted in the loss of their stored email, so Google probably has some sort of offsite backup arrangement, and that might complicate prompt deletion. ... yup, http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7401 says "residual copies of deleted messages and accounts may take up to 60 days to be deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems." So, if you were google, would you use tape backup? If so, how would you do that permanent deletion thing? If not, how would you make darn sure you didn't anger users by losing messages during a disaster? - Dan p.s. I used to work there, so I'm probably more sympathetic to the problems they face than the average privacy activist. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
