Deleted Photos Linger on Networking Sites

Posted by Hal
Tags: blogging, surveillance, facebook, culture, privacy, myspace, data theft

A Cambridge study concluded that “a dismal 7 of the 16 sites failed to revoke photos after 30 days”. In other words, when they uploaded and then deleted photos from various social networks, blog sites and photo sharing sites, they found that the photos remained in the system 30 days later 7 out of 16 times. Sites that continued to retain photos included Facebook, MySpace and LiveJournal.

It doesn’t take much of an imagination to think of all kinds of ways people might exploit the loophole of the lingering pics.

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