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iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 6 months ago (36 children)

Nothing sinister, we just don't delete what we say we delete. Instead we keep it in your profile to feed the algorithms and set the "deleted" flag to make you think it's gone.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 months ago (28 children)

I mean, to be completely fair, that's how data storage works.

We cannot really just make data disappear, so we let it get overwritten instead

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (14 children)

Proper deletion should include writing all ones or all zeroes to the block but y'all be lazy as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yeah cuz for normal, day-to-day use that's exponentially slower the more you're deleting