[As anticipated by George Orwell, technology can support historical revisionism. Unsurprisingly, Facebook's implementation of it was highly amateurish, because it deleted messages rather than threads.]
>Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 08:07:52 -0700 >To: privacy-l...@vortex.com >From: PRIVACY Forum mailing list <priv...@vortex.com> >Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Facebook retracted Zuckerberg's messages from > recipients' inboxes > >Facebook retracted Zuckerberg's messages from recipients' inboxes > >https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/zuckerberg-deleted-messages/ > > Three sources confirm to TechCrunch that old Facebook messages > they received from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their > Facebook inboxes, while their own replies to him conspicuously > remain. An email receipt of a Facebook message from 2010 > reviewed by TechCrunch proves Zuckerberg sent people messages > that no longer appear in their Facebook chat logs or in the > files available from Facebook's Download Your Information > tool. When asked by TechCrunch about the situation, Facebook > claimed it was done for corporate security in this statement: ... > > - - - > >Email/message retention/deletion policies for legal reasons are not >uncommon at large firms. However, the deletion of specific messages >from *recipients'* inboxes strikes me as unusual at the very least. > >--Lauren-- >Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren >Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com >Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues >Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org > PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info >Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info >Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy >Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein >Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein >Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 >_______________________________________________ >privacy mailing list >https://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:roger.cla...@xamax.com.au http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
