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In which case, you likley didn't delete them correctly.

If you delete them from your device, it doesn't delete the cloud copy.

If you delete from an album, it removes the image from the album, but not from your account.

Google's privacy policy says has limits to delete user data, and I can assure you they are very strict about that. (Lots of data is deleted within hours, but the multiple days is to ensure all backups of it are gone too)

See http://blog.tech-and-law.com/2010/11/google-data-retention-p...



This is correct. A deletion should be effective/visible immediately, but it can take some time before all backups are guaranteed to be gone.


No it isn't google takes your data to tapes as well as offline long term storage.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM


They could be deleting encryption keys to the tapes? All speculation.


There was a talk about the backup infrastructure. The speaker talked about the issue of keys, but didn't provide specific details:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/3/how-google-backs-up...




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