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Didn’t we all learn it long ago? They never delete.
Harddisks are cheap. Data are gold.
I learned that things you post online can never be deleted way in school.
The difference here is that the files aren’t on Apples servers, they are on your phones internal disk. It is especially dangerous with Apple as you can’t even run third party software.
Yeah, but ignoring the delete requests, and storing the data puts them out of compliance with European and American deletion and retention laws. And if they were lying, and were using user photos to train models, they have more than enough non-deleted photos already.
I’m not pulling out my jump to conclusions mat quire yet. The database corruption issue sounds more reasonable. That stuff happens, and Apple isn’t zeroing data. Most people aren’t. Because the data isn’t zeroed, a file can resurrect when a corruption issue is remedied.
Pay wall:
Wait so these faceless corporations aren’t as invested in protecting my information as I was led to believe by their ridiculously well-funded marketing?
I mean, I clicked on “Agree” or “Yes” or whatever to that big long important screen they were so weird about.
I mean Android does a full wipe with zeros or a flash secure delete both of which will make your data extremely hard to get if not impossible.
It would be deleted if a factory reset actually did its job.
I’m not unconvinced this is a move to get people to throw away there old phones instead of creating a used market.
Factory reset is for the phone. Photo libraries are backed up to the cloud. The issue was the photos weren’t deleted in the cloud.
why would someone not immediately disable cloud backups upon purchasing a device? are they stupid?
Anyone with a background in computing would respond, “duh.” The operating system maintains a file table which contains the addresses of pieces of data on the disk. Deleting a file just removed its file table entry, and in most cases leaves the data untouched. That’s why data recovery software exists, and it’s also how we have the “Trash” or “Recycle Bin”. If you want the photos completely erased, you’ll need to overwrite the data, which wastes time and write cycles…
You’re right, except that this is about years-old deleted pics. Like deleted-in-2021 old. The blocks on the partition have long since been overwritten.
Apple doesn’t care about your privacy. They care about their image of caring about your privacy.
Nerds looking for fodder to attack apple again. Batterygate 2 electric boogaloo.
The multi-gazillion corporation needs your protection now!🫡
I’m sorry reality doesn’t align with your bitching 😭
