“In modern, big cloud infrastructures, they basically never delete anything,” said Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell who does research on cloud computing. When a user deletes something, Facebook is able to ensure users will not see the deleted post, but that doesn’t mean Facebook destroys all traces of that post completely, or that Facebook cannot retrieve it. “If you post something and later decide you don’t want people to see it, you can delete it,” Facebook says in its Privacy Basics section of the site.īut once something’s “deleted,” what happens? Spartan Newsroom - News and information from student journalists at the Michigan State University School of Journalismįor social media users, there may come a time when they’d like to erase an embarrassing post, which sites like Facebook say is possible.
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