• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    I think it’s debatable whether storing in volatile memory is persisting, but ok. And by debatable I mean depends on what is happening exactly.

    A court order forcing them to no longer garbage, collect or delete data used for processing is a problem.

    what, are they going to do memory dumps before every free() call?

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I mean at this point you’re just being intentionally obtuse no? You are correct of course, volatile memory if you consider it from a system point of view would be pretty asinine to try and store.

      However, we’re not really looking at this from a system’s view are we? Clearly you ignored all the other examples I provided just to latch on to the memory argument. There are many other ways that this data could be stored in a transient fashion.