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Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage (www.theverge.com)
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Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

What's the old adage? If it's on the internet it is there forever? except when nintendo IP lawyers or dmca douchebags are involved

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Even local files still “exist” when you delete them. Usually the filesystem just marks those blocks as reusable since overwriting the data would take a lot longer.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

It's on the internet forever, but whatever the regular user needs is lost behind poor content indexing and incompetent search functions