A good rule of thumb, is to assume anything you’ve requested or uploaded on the internet has been logged and saved by some third party. Really all one can do is mask themselves, so they appear anonymous. But otherwise we are all being tracked by the systems we are using at multiple levels.
Delete buttons might as well be feel good sugar pills. Even with GDPR and other laws in place, companies make mistakes and may discover they stored your information illegally for years after a takedown request is submitted.
A good rule of thumb, is to assume anything you’ve requested or uploaded on the internet has been logged and saved by some third party. Really all one can do is mask themselves, so they appear anonymous. But otherwise we are all being tracked by the systems we are using at multiple levels.
Delete buttons might as well be feel good sugar pills. Even with GDPR and other laws in place, companies make mistakes and may discover they stored your information illegally for years after a takedown request is submitted.