Deleting Website Accounts - Page 2

classicman · 05-24-2009, 12:51 PM

forgot to add this link for those of you looking to delete accounts from various sites.

and this BBC article

Quote:

The Cambridge University researchers said special photo-sharing sites, such as Flickr and Google's Picasa, did better and Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces removed the photos instantly.

To perform their experiment, the researchers uploaded photos to each of the sites, then deleted them, but kept a note of direct URLs to the photos from the sites' content delivery networks.

When they checked 30 days later, these links continued to work for seven of the sites even though a typical user might think the photos had been removed.

Lazy approach

Joseph Bonneau, one of the PhD students who carried out the study, said: "This demonstrates how social networking sites often take a lazy approach to user privacy, doing what's simpler rather than what is correct.

"It's imperative to view privacy as a design constraint, not a legal add-on."

But a Facebook spokesman defended the company's approach saying; "When a user deletes a photograph from Facebook it is removed from our servers immediately.

"However, URLs to photographs may continue to exist on the Content Delivery Network (CDN) after users delete them from Facebook, until they are overwritten.

"Overwriting usually happens after a short period of time."

Users of Facebook staged a revolt recently over rules which would have given the site permanent ownership of their data.

Clodfobble · 05-24-2009, 02:43 PM

The Wayback Machine link

Clodfobble · 05-24-2009, 02:45 PM

For example, from the Wayback Machine: the oldest cache of the Cellar they have on record, from Aug 24, 2000.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-24-2009, 03:39 PM

The link is 2004.

Clodfobble · 05-24-2009, 04:43 PM

Oh, I take it back--it was the entrance page that was from 2000, then somehow that links you to a 2004 version. They have a snapshot of the actual main page from Feb. 2001. Most of the actual thread content is not collected until much more recent days though.

Undertoad · 05-24-2009, 04:44 PM

To think at one time I was happy with that logo.

I've come a long way.

ETA and I'm always looking for my Deuteronomy Cliff's Notes. Threadid 150. Always proud of that one.

05-24-2009, 02:43 PM	#17
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	The Wayback Machine link __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

05-24-2009, 02:45 PM	#18
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	For example, from the Wayback Machine: the oldest cache of the Cellar they have on record, from Aug 24, 2000. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

05-24-2009, 03:39 PM	#19
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The link is 2004. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-24-2009, 04:43 PM	#20
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Oh, I take it back--it was the entrance page that was from 2000, then somehow that links you to a 2004 version. They have a snapshot of the actual main page from Feb. 2001. Most of the actual thread content is not collected until much more recent days though. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

05-24-2009, 04:44 PM	#21
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	To think at one time I was happy with that logo. I've come a long way. ETA and I'm always looking for my Deuteronomy Cliff's Notes. Threadid 150. Always proud of that one.

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