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Will Facebook, Google Delete My Personal Info?

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Mark Melin
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Deleting one's digital footprint from social media and online interactions can have varying levels of complexity, notes the Guardian's technology reporter Jack Schofield.

Will Facebook, Google Delete My Personal Info?

Deleting private data isn’t often a problem, however, some data may be on tape backup, in which case it would be too expensive for firms to delete the data. Before deleting our private data Before closing an account, Schofield recommends backing up data or transferring it to a different service using a service such as Thunderbird, for instance.

Your digital footprint on Google

Deleting an account can involve different data stored in different locations. Taking Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) as...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.