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Websites 'keeping deleted photos'

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NucleusKore
NucleusKore Original post #1
May 21, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Source: *news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8060407.stm

User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said.

They put photos on 16 popular websites - noting the web addresses where the images were stored - and deleted them.

The team said it was able to find them on seven sites - including Facebook - using the direct addresses, even after the photos appeared to have gone.

Facebook says deleted photos are removed from its servers "immediately".

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thewisecrab
May 21, 2009 at 9:46 AM
I guess nothing is private in the public world of Social networking :|
Same is the case with deleted emails, it might be removed from your inbox, but the service provider still has a copy of it stored on the server. :|
Twitter FTW!! :D
unni
unni #3
May 21, 2009 at 1:44 PM
While testing my mobile blogging feature, I took a few test pics and uploaded to my blogspot blog. Later, I deleted them. About one month later, I accidentally logged into Picasa (I never use it) and found those deleted photos there.