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Facebook data retention
After MySpace, let's see how Facebook holds up in the eternal all your data are belong to us competition. My pronostic would be "not so good".
On a sidenote...
With regards to Facebook privacy, Bruce Schneier has some interesting links on his blog about Facebook's privacy settings:
Scheiner's original blog entry was about a study (.pdf) stating that the more people are 'reassured' about the safe-guarding of their privacy, the more they care about it - and thus, the less they are willing to reveal personal information. Henceforth, "social networking" websites prefer to remind you about the supposed benefits of their services, rather than the fact they will (not?) protect your privacy.
Meanwhile, the pictures deleted from MySpace on 4 July are (at the time of writing) still on their servers.
18 July 2009