20190422 GDPR

April 22, 2019•65 words

I am literally cackling while watching my automation delete hundreds of thousands of files in production. Paid to destroy, aw yeah.

Also, cackling helps cover the terror that that my automation will delete the wrong thing.

You see, data that was precious becomes a liability merely by aging.

Yet, if deleted unintentionally, data that was a liability becomes precious again.

This is business logic.

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