After many years “deleted” Facebook photos are still online

I’m sure you like everyone else thinks that when you delete a photo from facebook or any website it’s delete and gone for good.

Oppps! Well deleting a picture might not be what most of seem to believe would happen.

“Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content “did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site,” but said it’s currently finishing up a newer system that makes the process much quicker. In the meantime, photos that users thought they “deleted” from the social network months or even years ago remain accessible via direct link.”

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