New groups are created on the fly by our application when needed. Under the 
scenario you describe we’d have to go through all the data in Accumulo whenever 
a group is created so that users in the group can see the existing data. 

On Mar 19, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Jeff Kunkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> My particular use case meets both of those conditions. I’d like to use a not 
> operator to soft delete things for specific groups of users, which are 
> assigned a given authorization. For example, assume I have two groups of 
> users: group1 and group2. If I want to temporarily hide something from group1 
> I would add “& !group1” to the visibility. In my case I’m not really using 
> the NOT operator for access control. The users in the group have access to 
> the data; they’ve just chosen to hide it from their view. 
>  
> 
> 
> This scenario includes rewriting the data with the "& !group1" addition? Why 
> not just rewrite the data to not include the group1 visibility at all?
> 

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