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Discussion on: Database Design and the GDPR

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Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers

This discussion goes beyond the database. Deleting data from disk often just marks it as being unused, but it is still possible to recover the old data unless you overwrite the data with zeros. And even then, some tools may be able to recover data, I believe based on wear patterns on the hard drive,, which is why many drive formatting tools overwrite the whole drive with zeros many times.

I'm always curious where, according to the law, the line for "good enough" lies.

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Lucia Cerchie

Yes, I wonder about this too. The GDPR has a list of defined terms but I can't find any related to deletion. gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/