- From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:03:12 +0200
- To: public-privacy@w3.org
- Cc: "Aleecia M. McDonald" <aleecia@aleecia.com>
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 01:11:28 Aleecia M. McDonald wrote: > An interesting clarifying question might be: how is being "forgotten" > either similar to or different from data retention policies? I think the only thing similar is that personal data is held. By "data retention" we normally understand traffic data and other online traces being kept by an entity. This entity can then access this data, analyze it and sell it. But have you ever seen a website publishing its full logdata? If it exists, it is a very rare edge case that we should not consider. So I think data retention is just out of scope for the discussion about tools to be forgotten as such traffic data is normally held for shorter periods of time and doesn't really pose problem. Even Google with huge amounts of information manages to aggregate at some point in time and thus remove the personal context somewhat. Best, Rigo
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