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Apple's Photo Bug Exposes the Myth of 'Deleted'

An Apple Photos glitch, now fixed, is a reminder that digital bits of your life will live on forever.

You rent it from giant tech companies, every month, often for a fee, and the way that cloud operates isn’t remotely local. The company says that in all cloud products, copies of deleted data are marked as available storage and overwritten over time. Both Apple and Google have policies where they retain your photos for 30 or 60 days after you have deleted them from your devices, so the “oh crap” lever is readily available.

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