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Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage (www.theverge.com)
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Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

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[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that Google just didn’t delete data — ever. Like, it’s way more valuable compared to the cost of the disk.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

I wouldn't be surprised if this is actually what happened here.. tech companies in general don't delete data if they can avoid it. I worked for companies that would just set deleted = 1 in the DB on delete calls. Google has more ability than anyone else to put that data to use