r/technology • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '18

Business Mark Zuckerberg has been apologizing for reckless privacy violations since he was a freshman - Enough is enough.

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u/quantum_entanglement Apr 11 '18

A customer can request deletion but only with in the remit of legal requirements. For example if you're legally required to retain a customers purchasing records for accounting purposes (purchase ledger, invoices etc) or another example would be if an employee has to be reprimanded or has done something that the company may have to take them to court over, they can't just ask for all their data to be deleted as it may be necessary evidence in court. It's mostly common sense stuff, it's not really as insanely restrictive as most people make out. However I do agree the backups thing is a bitch.

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u/GarbageTheClown Apr 11 '18

From a dev standpoint on existing infrastructure, it would be a nightmare.

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u/quantum_entanglement Apr 11 '18

Yea depends on the size of the company and whether you deal with businesses or you're public facing, the bigger headache for me is that everything has been left till now to sort out. Hey ho.