Messaging platforms already have a hard time offering coherent, comprehensible data management features like “disappearing messages”, and users have a hard enough time comprehending them.

I’ve little sympathy for the user, not for what he did but I’m not convinced there is (nor should be) a standard for what “deleted” means; but it’s interesting to see the need for data deletion to be tested in the courts.

“Interoperability” will make this all worse, of course.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/husband-pursues-apple-after-wife-finds-deleted-messages-to-prostitute-bbhlg2x07

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