Data Erasure Quotes

We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.

Hillary has now erased all of her emails, and she also had all of her pantsuits dry cleaned.

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

Never tell a computer to forget it.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Google doesn't really forget.

I have become very good at clearing histories.

When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.

Frankly, nobody's every seen anything like what's happening today. When you have somebody getting a subpoena from the United States Congress to have your e-mails and all other information sent, and after - not before, after getting the subpoena, 33,000 e-mails are deleted and acid washed. And nobody even knows what that means, acid wash. It's a very expensive thing to do. Most people don't even know what it means.

Thieves sell to unscrupulous merchants who pay hundreds of dollars for phones - no questions asked - and then 'jailbreak' them. They unlock the units, erase their data, reprogram them, and put them up for resale.