[mudkip]

I'd be curious to hear from other people with similar viewpoints, but I personally disagree. Cambridge Analytica was bad because it was a third party receiving data from others, and those people had zero reason to think that their data would ever be shared with a third party. In this case, all of the data I've obtained is either public, or was explicitly shared with me by those people in the first place. If you're arguing that I shouldn't be able to hold data that someone else wants removed, then I'd ask at what point we should be deleting your memories of events that someone else wants repressed.

To be clear, if I want to create the equivalent of a data-hoarder bunker, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I do, however, agree that sharing things with people that couldn't see it themselves (expanding the original audience) isn't something anyone should ever do. I'd also like to point out that once someone removes something from Facebook (or any other service, for that matter), the authenticity of copies of that information is now debatable - I could scrape a bunch of stuff and show people, but you have no way of proving whether or not that information is authentic. For all you know, my script makes any posts%5 super racist.

[wormseed]

People post on facebook assuming the privacy model of facebook, where they have revokable control of who sees what they share. What do you think your friends would say if you told them you're keeping a personal copy of their photos even if they try to delete them?

[mudkip]

I've actually shown this project to several people with varying degrees of technical knowledge. The technical people have generally already considered the privacy implications of what they've shared on the internet, fully expecting most things to become public thanks to crappy code/policies. They're usually more interested in what a rewrite of TAO looks like, or how you decompile rendered frontend code back into accessible JSON.

As for the less technical people, they tend to be significantly more annoyed at Facebook when I tell them that their old comment threads / messages are likely incoherent junk.