The Data Liberation Front - Getting Your data from google services • Hacker News Board

Re: The Data Liberation Front - Getting Your data from google services

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Post by maxcap » Tue, Sep 15, 2009, 2:03 PM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #18

maxcap wrote: post #4

Liberate - sure; Delete - maybe later (if ever).

If this worries you, assume nothing you type can be ever deleted. I own a very, VERY small web application. It takes input from users and, potentially, saves it to the database, then performs operations on it. Suppose a user types "foobar" into my application, waits a while, and then tells me "Hey, I want you to totally erase any evidence that I ever typed "foobar". Well, um, I don't think it is physically possible f…

Liberation is good - Google is good - so are privacy agreements.

A better name for the site could be "Grab a Copy of Your Data!" - much more accurate. Liberate implies that you are actually getting your data back - which you're not...you're getting...a.....copy.

Re: The Data Liberation Front - Getting Your data from google services

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Post by DenisM » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 12:50 AM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #18

maxcap wrote: post #4

Liberate - sure; Delete - maybe later (if ever).

If this worries you, assume nothing you type can be ever deleted. I own a very, VERY small web application. It takes input from users and, potentially, saves it to the database, then performs operations on it. Suppose a user types "foobar" into my application, waits a while, and then tells me "Hey, I want you to totally erase any evidence that I ever typed "foobar". Well, um, I don't think it is physically possible f…

Immediate deletion is hard. Retention policy is easy. At my company after 90 days the the backups are blown away. I presume Amazon S3 will take time to age out the data after I'm through with it, but they too will eventually delete it.

Re: The Data Liberation Front - Getting Your data from google services

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Post by DenisM » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 12:52 AM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #19

socillion wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks to me like its an intentional play on Earth/Animal Liberation Front (aka ELF and ALF).

Which are themselves references to any number of leftist revolutionary movements, because remember kids, Communism is cool. Like Che T-shirts, I severely doubt anybody ever thought through "Hey, I wonder what an all-red color scheme and the words 'Liberation Front' say about our values here". Hint: it isn't "Do no evil."

Lighten up.