On slide 89 it mentions that they delete the data if the user cancels it.

TazeTSchnitzel · on May 1, 2012

And of course they do. They respect user choice and privacy. Whilst you can be all tin-foil hat and think they are going to keep these "cancelled" photos, I would seriously doubt it.

skeletonjelly · on May 1, 2012

People also doubted that Facebook retained deleted profiles a number of years ago. Is this an unhealthy opinion to form in an age of growing "cloud" data?

huhtenberg · on May 1, 2012

Do they also delete photos from a backend database backup that might've occurred after the upload but before the user cancelled the photo?

sghael · on May 1, 2012

The photo isn't store in a database. It's stored on S3. They are not backing up S3, so this concern is misplaced.

moron · on May 1, 2012

Ha, I love the HN reaction to this. Sperging out about Instagram getting photos they're "not supposed to", fake outrage about fake privacy breaches, all while blatantly ignoring this fact.

And of course, I'm sure all this fake outrage has nothing to do with Instagram's recent purchase by Facebook.