<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nextparadigms</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&quot;Note: According to facebook’s privacy policy, messages on facebook can not be deleted anymore. If you click on ‘delete’ the messages will only be invisible to you. US law enforcement agencies can access this information at there own liking, without judicial review.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That last one is scary indeed. People were arguing a while ago whether these companies should keep data only for 6 months, or for a year, or 18 months - but Facebook is simply keeping it forever. Even 10 years from now law enforcement could verify your Facebook data.&lt;p&gt;Facebook Timeline should give them a nice UI, too, in case you don&apos;t delete anything. But they would still want to dig deep. I wonder if Facebook built a special Timeline product for law enforcement to see &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt; about everyone. Remember when they admitted a while ago that they provide law enforcement a special software for the data? I wonder if the idea of Timeline for users comes from that.&lt;p&gt;Julian Assange was dead-on that Facebook is the biggest spying machine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sek</author><text>Unbelievable: &lt;a href=&quot;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They delete sh*t, if you delete your posts they don&apos;t remove them from their databases.&lt;p&gt;This makes me really angry, there is a reason why i delete this stuff. I can&apos;t believe this, they have a responsibility.&lt;p&gt;Edit: WTF &lt;a href=&quot;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Machines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Mac...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is maybe the most frightening: &lt;a href=&quot;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Messages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Mes...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secret Tracking Data</title><url>http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data_.html</url><text></text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FuzzyDunlop</author><text>You may be surprised that many (at a guess, maybe most?) companies/websites actually consider a delete function to be changing a &apos;deleted&apos; flag to 1 in a database. The data persists, but is no longer shown.&lt;p&gt;I would also make a very big assumption that the only companies who &lt;i&gt;wouldn&apos;t&lt;/i&gt; do this are those run by developers or other people who have had experience implementing that sort of system.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s nothing bosses love more than storing whatever data they can get their hands on, no matter how relevant it is, and how reluctant they are to actually delete it. Or secure it properly. Hell, it&apos;s just data, who gives a shit right?</text><parent_chain><item><author>sek</author><text>Unbelievable: &lt;a href=&quot;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They delete sh*t, if you delete your posts they don&apos;t remove them from their databases.&lt;p&gt;This makes me really angry, there is a reason why i delete this stuff. I can&apos;t believe this, they have a responsibility.&lt;p&gt;Edit: WTF &lt;a href=&quot;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Machines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Mac...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is maybe the most frightening: &lt;a href=&quot;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Messages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Mes...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secret Tracking Data</title><url>http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data_.html</url><text></text></story>