All of us are aware of blogs, social networking sites, public forums etc etc and the list goes in a web2.0 world. I believe all of the mediums do maintain some form of private data about the user to maintain the session or in simple cases, provide the service you intend to receive from them. So when we no longer want to use any service, or simply stop using the service, we often do not go ahead and close/remove our data from the service providers. Also, even though, we do close our account or remove ourselves, we still do not know what happens to our private data. One classis example is, gmail (www.gamil.com) the popular free email service from Google, does nto delete any email even though you delete them from yoru view.
Though we do not know, who and why someone would be interested in my personal data in near or far away future, we know our service providers keep it. Even when we are long gone from this world, we still leave some kind of footprint in this world.
I came across a nice article about this in here:
Until my next musing,
Biswajit
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