text_combined: jeff bone zuutfplaceorg oct 9 2007 327 pm luis villa wrote 10907 jeff bone wrote whole notion deleting digital data fundamentally broken fiction lawyers phbs like think level physical nearimpossibility think even secure delete methods compromised last several years id argue economic costs requiring allowing obligating deletion circumstances outweigh benefits data considered inherently immutable copyable durable notional entity described data evolve call versioning hrm one hand youre right hand lots places purposes law purposes policy safely assume deletion actually occurs line probably subject interesting paper know say assuming btw problem corollaries subject whole subindustry ilm particularly retention relates regulatory legal issues based experience deepfile imho whole area giant pita involved eg assume youve got regulatory requirement delete copies information sitting file server x years technological means track many copies information ever made ergo theres literally way comply regulation nonetheless regulation exists language like best efforts customary definitions assumptions eg reasonable help dampen problem somewhat level simply cant get away fact ultimately propagation digital information controlled meant said though level applications deadwood concepts creation construction deletion break embodiment digital society law long way go catch facts ground arbitraging digital reality nostalgic society law usually rich opportunity jb tue 05 aug 2008 225628 0500 fork open service analysis