Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Photo Sites Not Removing Deleted Photos?

There has been a fair amount of hype and concern in the news lately about photo sharing websites not removing photos that users have deleted.

User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said.

That quote is from a BBC article on the topic.  The story has been picked up in blogs everywhere in social media circles.  I’m glad to report that Snapact doesn’t fall victim to this shortcoming on the Snapact Photo Sharing Community. We actually have a regularly running program that discovers photos that users have removed and run the appropriate deletion routines.

Your photos will be removed from our permanent storage within a couple of minutes of your request. Your security and privacy are important to us, so enjoy Snapact knowing this information!