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Comment by helthanatos | Hacker News Reader

They can also delete media from your phone. Had a graphic video of that carnival ride breaking and killing someone and it was deleted...

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Is this for real? Was it deleted specifically on Google Photos, with a local copy still available or possibly available if it hadn't already been cleared locally? Or was it a legitimate "reach into local storage and clear it"?

I'd be wary of believing some random anecdotal story with absolutely zero proof and very little detail.

  anecdotal story with absolutely zero proof

If you lack real control over your device, "absolutely zero proof" is the new normal, and everything that gets zeroed out of RAM is rendered anecdotal thusly.

It was only local.

Was it uploaded to some cloud service?

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