Once in, the hacker spammed Honan's Twitter followers and deleted all the data from his various devices.
Google said users can opt to have their data deleted after three, six, nine or 12 months of inactivity.
The information has since been deleted, the data protection agency said.
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You can have the data simply deleted after a set period of inactivity or you can, will-style, hand it over to trusted contacts.
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Once the breach was identified, the forces said G4S appointed an information assurance professional to ensure that all information relating to the personal data was deleted from their hard drives and records, and that no hard copies existed.
Worse, Tobias says, the mistrial opens the door to the admission of new accusations from the editors of The New England Journal of Medicine, who says that data were deleted from the manuscript describing the largest-ever study of Vioxx, published in 2000.
It also makes it easier to find the files that have been created, accessed and modified during an attack, and it is able to reconstruct deleted files from raw data found in various hidden parts of a computer's hard disk, such as unallocated space and file slack.
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The recordings will be kept confidential and conversations will be deleted once the devices' data are analyzed.
Parents also need to be able to review their children's data and have these deleted if they so wish.
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Plays after that period will cost the same as the initial download, although the movie data isn't necessarily deleted.
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An agency spokeswoman says any data found to be irrelevant will be deleted from the files.
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No urls, browsing histories or IP addresses are retained and the raw data used to make the match is deleted in real time - by the time the page loads.
"Certain" data that was stored in its point of sale software was deleted immediately, the company said in a statement.
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The recordings will be kept confidential and once the devices' data are analyzed, any conversations on the recordings will be deleted.
Data from people arrested but not convicted would have to be deleted unless they had committed a violent or sexual offence, in which case DNA would be retained for up to three years.
They need to be able to access their own data, to easily take them to another provider or have them deleted if they no longer want them to be used.
The data stolen was posted on several different sites to stop it being swiftly found and deleted.
In the wake of a court deposition of one of its top editors, The New England Journal of Medicine says that data that might have linked the drug to an increase in heart attacks years earlier was deleted from the biggest study of Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Vioxx, published in 2000.
"Meanwhile, I welcome the fact that the Wi-Fi payload data that should never have been collected in the first place can, at last, be deleted, " he said.
According to a posting on the Journal's Web site, editors at the world's top medical journal found by examining a computer diskette that relevant data about Vioxx's risk to the heart compared with an older pain drug, naproxen, were deleted two days before the paper was initially submitted to the Journal.
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