A thing few people understand: deleting data does not cause physical changes; it is a social agreement to not look at the data again.
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Real talk: nobody does that, absent specific legal instructions which mandate it, and few people actually rigorously obey those instructions
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We delete all backups and logs after 30 days. Spelled out in plain English on our privacy page: https://basecamp.com/about/policies/privacy …
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If you delete data from tarsnap, I lose all the access I ever had to your plaintext. Close enough?
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...You have any access to plaintext? :O
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We are, of course, assuming the company in question actually has reasonable backups, deleted flags, etc. -- which is often false.
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Also users are often interested in facets like "don't leak my data after I've left, don't keep emailing me" which it can help with.
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And sometimes, yes, let me ask my data center to throw it all out.
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It's doable (and I know at least one place where it's done).
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Future profession: Backup archeology
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