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Des photos supprimées de Facebook peuvent rester en ligne plusieurs mois voire plusieurs années
Sécurité - Le problème vient du système de sauvegarde des serveurs CDN de Facebook qui ne répercute pas immédiatement la suppression des contenus. Une image supprimée peut ainsi être retrouvée grâce à l’URL de sa copie mise en cache. Supprimer une photo de sa page Facebook et découvrir qu’elle est toujours accessible sur la Toile plusieurs mois voire plusieurs années après, le constat a de quoi inquiéter. C'est pourtant la découverte d'une journaliste du site Ars Technica qui a mené une enquête il y a un an pour savoir si les photos supprimées sur les réseaux sociaux étaient réellement retirées des serveurs.
Are "deleted" photos really gone from Facebook? Not always
In an age where your boss, coworkers, parents, and even (*gasp*) grandparents are finally joining social networks, we are all more aware than ever that we had better keep things relatively clean. And if you were someone who joined MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, or a number of other sites years ago, you may have more cleaning up to do than usual—after all, back then, you were probably young(er) and dumb(er), posting silly pics of your drunken escapades or questionable updates regarding your unusual interest in English cucumbers. If you delete questionable images of yourself, you may be in the clear—or you may not, depending on the social network. As it turns out, some social networks delete your images right away while others hold onto them even after claiming they've been deleted.
Facebook may be making strides in some areas of privacy, but the company is still struggling when it comes to deleting user photos—or not deleting them, as the case may be. We wrote a piece more than a year ago examining whether photos really disappear from social network servers when you delete them, and found that Facebook was one of the worst offenders when it came to leaving "deleted" photos online. We decided to revisit the issue recently when readers continued to point out that our deleted photos from that article were still online more than 16 months later. Indeed, this old photo of me remains on Facebook's content delivery network (CDN) servers, despite being deleted on May 21, 2009.
"Deleted" Facebook photos still not deleted: a followup