Tag: DELETE

A Zurich-based photoblogger named Mirco Wilhelm is really, really upset today, because Flickr accidentally deleted his account, along with some 4,000 of his online photographs. The mishap occurred a few days ago, after Wilhelm sent in a support ticket to complain about a user who was posting photos that appeared to be stolen. The Flickr staff member who received the complaint mixed up the two ...

Share In 2009, Ars Technica discovered that an alarmingly high number of deleted Facebook photos were never actually deleted. Now, more than a year later, it appears that the social network has yet to fix the problem. When Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng first contacted Facebook representatives about the issue, they told her that any deleted photos were inaccessible to other users, even if they ...

We already know the White House has trouble archiving and organizing its e-mail record. Now we learn that state by state, the e-mail records from governors' offices and their aides are often just as muddled. According to a recent Associated Press poll, while the majority of U.S. states' laws view e-mail records the same as paper, many do not require all e-mail to be saved. Instead, the ...