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Websites keep deleted photos

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User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said.

They put photos on 16 popular websites - noting the web addresses where the images were stored - and deleted them.

The team said it was able to find them on seven sites - including Facebook - using the direct addresses, even after the photos appeared to have gone.
But a Facebook spokesman defended the company's approach saying; "When a user deletes a photograph from Facebook it is removed from our servers immediately.

"However, URLs to photographs may continue to exist on the Content Delivery Network (CDN) after users delete them from Facebook, until they are overwritten.

"Overwriting usually happens after a short period of time."
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Rule 1: Never put incriminating photos on the internet if they aren't suppose to be exposed to the public.
Rule 2: See Rule 1.
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So what if they don't delete pic's after the person that submitted removed it ?
After deletion you will be the only person that knows about the original location.
If you uploaded incriminating media of any sort you deserve to be cream-pie'd in the face.

Everybody out there is only out to get you if you believe they are.
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Facebooks policy states that they do keep all photos for a few months after deletion - so how they can say that they delete it immediately ...
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Oh noes, websites dont immediately delete your boring fugly pics as soon as you hit delete on your browser?

WOW!

I cant believe Rick Romero missed this scoop!
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I don't really mind that much tbh...
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