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I don't lock my door because there's a lot of people around that I don't trust. My neighbors are some of them. I don't know half of them by name. Why should I trust them?

> Companies often face legal requirements that your data is truly gone, e.g. see the European Union's Data Protection Directive.

Maybe that's part of the difference. In the US you have to keep records of stuff. At my company, we have to keep records for ~7 years, IIRC.




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