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by discordance
2439 days ago
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Seems like more of a philosophical question. If it's not accessible then it's essentially lost. If a new technology comes about that makes it accessible, then you would be liable. If you've lost the key, and have no intent on recovering the data due to GDPR or whatever, then why not just delete it to avoid any potential future liability? |
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Perhaps there are a lot of backups of this encrypted data, some of which are not under control of the person asking the question.
Or just consider a tape backup. How would you efficiently delete a part of data stored on a tape?
Deleting data can be a hard problem in some cases.