Every 24 hours or so, 4chan deletes all comments and images posted over the previous day.
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If the company just makes a copy and deletes it from its servers, did it commit murder?
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Snapchat has proved popular as it deletes sensitive or risque photos and videos after a short delay.
Antivirus and spyware detection software scans for and deletes spyware and other types of malware from your computer.
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It deletes cookies each time you close the browser or turn off private browsing, effectively hiding your history.
Quick-thinking Oswin deletes all of the information about him from their telepathic web, making them forget him and their trauma.
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"If a person deletes an email, he should be confident that email is actually deleted, " Bits of Freedom founder Maurice Westerling said.
The second method is far more destructive, and deletes the data by applying an over-current to the NAND flash memory which physically destroys them.
Meanwhile, "Scheduled Cleanup" automatically deletes messages after a certain number of days have passed -- a good way to cut through that pile of unused Groupon alerts.
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In the US it blocks sites known to carry material that violates copyright, while in France and Germany it deletes listings for neo-Nazi and race hate groups.
She can pursue what she likes, and for one month every year she takes an e-mail sabbatical, during which she not only ignores all e-mail but also deletes it.
When a photo or video is deleted, or when a person deletes his or her account, we delete all of the metadata for the content as well as any and all tagging and linking information.
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Basically it's a USB security key that supposedly encrypts data stored to the thumb drive using AES, provides remote encrypted storage, creates a secure connection to the internet, and deletes your browser's cookies and history files.
Once logged into the app, you can send and delete eKeys, or transfer them to another device (this also deletes the eKeys associated with a lost handset, for example) -- you can even create eKeys that only work once.
For the average user at least, the dangers of losing data through accidental deletion, hardware failure or even malware attack malware that deletes user data is quite rare nowadays far outweighs the dangers posed by hacker attack.
Creating content that will eventually destruct can make for highly dynamic discussions too, and one example is the website 4chan, the popular image board frequented by web-savvy individuals that automatically deletes all content on the site every 24 hours.
According to the release notes, iOS 4.3.3 reduces the size of the location database cache, stops backing the cache up to iTunes when you connect your device to a computer, and deletes the cache entirely when you turn Location Services off.
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