Does Badoo data stay forever?

[petaspetao1234]

Hello. I would like to ask if anyone knows if even after removing photos and closing account and even long long time passes if data stays on servers? I know no one cant see it but I would like to know if is any info? are they gone forever? do they keep tapes? For a site like Badoo i dont know. I dont know the size of the company but does anyone have any idea? especially when content is more personal. Thank you very much! Yeah I know it sounds way way too paranoid but if you know anything you can write it! thank you again!

 

[Elixer]

Most all companies keeps backups. Closing the account may/may not do anything with the data.

Thinking about their data practices after the fact is the wrong way to do it.

As a general rule, whatever you post, any image you send, it is in some database someplace.

 

[bononos]

Just speaking for facebook, after permanently deleting your facebook account, it takes another 2 weeks before it gets permanently deleted. During that 2 week period, if you click a like or anything like that on your phone/pc, the account will revert to an active status. So you need to remove all traces of your account on the phone/pc as well.

 

[Elixer]

Just speaking for facebook, after permanently deleting your facebook account, it takes another 2 weeks before it gets permanently deleted. During that 2 week period, if you click a like or anything like that on your phone/pc, the account will revert to an active status. So you need to remove all traces of your account on the phone/pc as well.

"Speaking for facebook"? More than likely, "Speaking about facebook".

I am sure facebook makes multiple backups, and I highly doubt they are going to go through all their backups, and delete stuff, not to mention all the other sites that take snapshots all the time of other sites.

 

[bononos]

"Speaking for facebook"? More than likely, "Speaking about facebook".

I am sure facebook makes multiple backups, and I highly doubt they are going to go through all their backups, and delete stuff, not to mention all the other sites that take snapshots all the time of other sites.

If it was an app from an unknown Chinese company, I agree that the stated privacy policy would be worthless. But facebook and other tech giants aren't simply cutting and pasting their privacy policy. Facebook's privacy thingy has been audited by European countries and they have to do privacy audits for 20yrs so there is some if not total assurance that the permanent delete button is working.

Agreed that your public info on facebook are going to be harvested by bots and could be kept permanently.

 

[Mike64]

If it was an app from an unknown Chinese company, I agree that the stated privacy policy would be worthless. But facebook and other tech giants aren't simply cutting and pasting their privacy policy. Facebook's privacy thingy has been audited by European countries and they have to do privacy audits for 20yrs so there is some if not total assurance that the permanent delete button is working.

Agreed that your public info on facebook are going to be harvested by bots and could be kept permanently.

No doubt that's true, but it seems to me that's not really relevant to the OP's question.

The OP didn't ask about "account" deletion or the removal of the data from public view, they asked about the "removal" of all of the "data" they ever uploaded to the site from the company's servers, including back-ups. I don't routinely read privacy policies from start to finish (I find it safer to I assume I have little to none and act accordingly - all else aside, privacy policies can and do change...), but I don't think I've ever seen that question addressed even indirectly in privacy policies, except maybe for VPN providers' (e.g., when they say they don't keep logs at all). And I think the only realistic (i.e.,"safe") answer to the OP's question is that once you upload something to any server you don't physically control, you've basically lost control over it and should assume it'll continue to exist somewhere more or less forever. Whether anyone could or will ever actually find it is a different issue, but it'll be "out there, somewhere"...

 

[bononos]

No doubt that's true, but it seems to me that's not really relevant to the OP's question.

The OP didn't ask about "account" deletion or the removal of the data from public view, they asked about the "removal" of all of the "data" they ever uploaded to the site from the company's servers, including back-ups. I don't routinely read privacy policies from start to finish (I find it safer to I assume I have little to none and act accordingly - all else aside, privacy policies can and do change...), but I don't think I've ever seen that question addressed even indirectly in privacy policies, except maybe for VPN providers' (e.g., when they say they don't keep logs at all). And I think the only realistic (i.e.,"safe") answer to the OP's question is that once you upload something to any server you don't physically control, you've basically lost control over it and should assume it'll continue to exist somewhere more or less forever. Whether anyone could or will ever actually find it is a different issue, but it'll be "out there, somewhere"...

No. It is relevant.The OP posted "even after removing photos and closing account" - which refers to deleting user data and account deletion.
I've already posted when/what big tech companies like facebook and google have been investigated for specifically this sort of problem and why they have to delete user data when the account has been deleted.

 

[petaspetao1234]

As bonobos said, I am talking about removing photos and deleting account. It is more than a year that this has happened so it is some time. I am asking for the website part of the case, in that case Badoo, not really care about third party bots.