Data Destruction

BoingBoing “unpublishing” blog posts

By Ira Nathenson on July 8, 2008

When is it ok to delete a blog post?  Dan Solove wrote about this a few years back at Concurring Opinions, where he points to additional posts at Prawfsblawg (here, here, and here). More recently, BoingBoing faced public scrutiny when one of its authors removed posts related to blogger and sex columnist Violet Blue, although [...]

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This posting will self-destruct in five seconds

By Ira Nathenson on June 21, 2006

As the Internet Archive shows, there is great value in preserving digital information for posterity. But sometimes, there is greater value in destroying information and doing so quickly. Information Week recounts the 2001 incident when an American spy plane was forced to land in Chinese territory after the plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet. [...]

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Inheritability of blogs: You take Aunt Esther’s silverware, I’ll take her blog…

By Ira Nathenson on June 10, 2006

Over at the user forums on WordPress.com, there’s an interesting thread on “web logs and wills.” Forum user timethief writes: What happens to . . . web logs if a person dies and their executor notifies [the weblog's host] of their demise. Can one leave their account, username, password and API key number to another [...]

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