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Originally Posted by Kosta
According to the blog, the reason for the TOS change was to make explicit their legal right to retain, for example, messages that you have sent to other people. It would be pretty silly if they had to delete all messages from you if you left.
However, people (rightly) protested the Orwellian wording, so now they've reverted while they search for a less totalitarian way to phrase it.
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This topic has come up on just about all IT service TOS's..
The provider has to make back-ups and archives of customer data,, all of it.. Which in turn creates bazillions of entries. This in turn makes it almost impossible to manage individual transactions..
Net Net,, It's a big CYA,, they need to keep the info so you can recover,, but the costs and activities involved are their responsibility to maintain. They just want to be able to keep the customer happy,, and not have to get everyones permission every day they do redundant data recovery back-up..
Lawyers are the ones that contrive the wording,, with-out thinking about the semantics and sentence readability..