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1 year agoOften you don’t know a crime has been committed at the time, which is why businesses are expected to have data retention periods for legal reasons.
But everyone keeps pointing to any data retention as some sort of big brother boogeyman.
From what I’ve seen so far, it’s just a broad rule they can point to if they want to remove certain content.
Essentially it’s their house and we’re just renting a room.