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janacm · 2021-06-02 17:49:08

I wonder what Tencent will do with all of the data

huj7 | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2017-11-03 03:54:48+00:00

I'd hand them over to the Chinese. To do something impactful with that amount of data requires resources that nobody else has.

freedomben | karma 22645 | avg karma 3.58 · | 2020-09-14 01:24:54

Reasonable guess, although I think it would be impossible to guarantee that no data is going back to China.

yyqux | karma 74 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2013-04-08 19:16:16+00:00

I wonder how this will work long-term as you accumulate an archive of old rarely-accessed data.

lake99 | karma 1323 | avg karma 2.37 · | 2016-05-28 12:32:20+00:00

I doubt it. Judging by history, it's more likely they'll demand access to all that data.

akamaka | karma 3605 | avg karma 4.42 · | 2021-03-17 05:08:47

I’d bet the hosted services will hold onto data forever, so that they can mine it.

pearjuice | karma 3031 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2013-08-09 00:04:51+00:00

Any word on what happens to our data?

marrone12 | karma 568 | avg karma 2.7 · | 2015-08-27 21:24:20

They keep a lot of data in cold storage as well, so not sure how easy it would be able to get everything. Probably just whatever data they think will be likely accessed soon and is in relatively ephemeral storage.

throwaway2048 | karma 9048 | avg karma 2.51 · | 2017-09-08 16:18:51+00:00

I'm not so sure about that, the data they have just gets resold to some other party when they go bankrupt, possibly many other parties and shit gets worse.

dx034 | karma 6137 | avg karma 1.82 · | 2016-11-18 15:56:14

They will probably put it in some archive where they delete it after 10 years. Or they keep it somewhere on a drive where it could be accessed but will never be, since no one has a reason to use the data.

dmitrygr | karma 11233 | avg karma 3.24 · | 2018-08-23 21:09:15

Unfortunately, one of those chopped up pieces being sold will be the user data they have. :(

yrizos | karma 29 | avg karma 0.83 · | 2017-08-03 12:51:36+00:00

There will be a data dump.

a3n | karma 11955 | avg karma 2.19 · | 2015-06-15 02:26:39

I suspect a lot of this data that's commercially collected, directly by services and indirectly by advertising and analytics networks, will eventually end up in the digital storage closet, forgotten and eventually discovered by criminals just rooting around. Especially after acquisitions.

SyzygistSix | karma 979 | avg karma 1.03 · | 2021-05-04 19:22:37+00:00

Or someone else will do something with their data.

BlackFly | karma 1594 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2019-07-09 16:52:39+00:00

Once they start deleting this data because of the potential fines they will wonder why they were collecting it in the first place.

TheSpiceIsLife | karma 9906 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2018-07-16 11:14:24+00:00

Yeah, how would they delete data they’ve already sold?

reitanqild | karma 6914 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2018-06-27 09:24:07+00:00

My guess: Will probably stay that way unless they suffer a major breach an this data starts showing up in wrong places.

minimaxir | karma 67739 | avg karma 7.48 · | 2019-02-01 20:35:28+00:00

Most likely, although there isn't a practical issue unless they redistribute the raw data.

SketchySeaBeast | karma 12642 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2020-03-31 21:30:16+00:00

I imagine this will probably be mostly duplicate data from last years data breach. What a continual mess.

Mirioron | karma 4923 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2019-11-01 08:20:25

Even if they reason themselves out of this concern, if that data ever leaks then it will pretty much be like handing over your phone. It'll likely even come with years worth of data.