Facebook Believed to be Storing Unpublished Video Data
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Test videos uploaded to Facebook, but not published, appear to be not deleted, but stored on Facebook indefinitely. This is not the first time that Facebook has taken heat for this exact kind of thing. Ambiguous terms of service are part of the issue. Users often have no idea what they might be agreeing to.
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Does this honestly surprise anyone?
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I expect that if I put something anywhere online, whether made available publicly or kept for me privately that somebody is storing it somewhere.
Edit: They kinda have to store stuff if it's been uploaded but not published, right?
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@dafyre said in Facebook Believed to be Storing Unpublished Video Data:
Edit: They kinda have to store stuff if it's been uploaded but not published, right?
They could just delete it if you don't publish it after a day or so.
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In fact, storing large amount of unpublished data like video files is not rational. I can imagine only two reasons why it may be stored like that. One of them is to avoid re-uploading of files whenever a user decides to finally publish the uploaded data. Another one is in case the company might need the data for some internal stuff that is not exposed to public, like using videos for AI learning or similar...
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@darek-hamann said in Facebook Believed to be Storing Unpublished Video Data:
In fact, storing large amount of unpublished data like video files is not rational. I can imagine only two reasons why it may be stored like that. One of them is to avoid re-uploading of files whenever a user decides to finally publish the uploaded data. Another one is in case the company might need the data for some internal stuff that is not exposed to public, like using videos for AI learning or similar...
Facial recognition anyone?
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@darek-hamann said in Facebook Believed to be Storing Unpublished Video Data:
In fact, storing large amount of unpublished data like video files is not rational. I can imagine only two reasons why it may be stored like that. One of them is to avoid re-uploading of files whenever a user decides to finally publish the uploaded data. Another one is in case the company might need the data for some internal stuff that is not exposed to public, like using videos for AI learning or similar...
It's used for data harvesting. Which is their bread and butter.
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@jaredbusch said in Facebook Believed to be Storing Unpublished Video Data:
@darek-hamann said in Facebook Believed to be Storing Unpublished Video Data:
In fact, storing large amount of unpublished data like video files is not rational. I can imagine only two reasons why it may be stored like that. One of them is to avoid re-uploading of files whenever a user decides to finally publish the uploaded data. Another one is in case the company might need the data for some internal stuff that is not exposed to public, like using videos for AI learning or similar...
Facial recognition anyone?
Good point.
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The general rule of thumb these days is "store everything, storage is cheap, you can't recreate old data, the more data you have the more you can pull out of it".
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@jaredbusch said in Facebook Believed to be Storing Unpublished Video Data:
Facial recognition anyone?
@JaredBusch Including facial recognition, but not really limited to that. @scottalanmiller expressed my thought in a very clear and laconic manner:
@scottalanmiller said in Facebook Believed to be Storing Unpublished Video Data:
It's used for data harvesting.
