JournalSpace forced to close
Just another reason to keep that IT guy happy. JournalSpace a smaller blogging site was forced to close up shop after a recent data loss. During the 6 year period the company never had an actual backup in place other than their mirror RAID which they thought would protect their 14,000 user’s data. Wrong! The culprit began sabotaging the data for 6 months and when the staff went to restore the data on the “backup” mirror drive they discovered the data had been overwritten and nothing was recoverable. It’s mind boggling that a single employee could be the downfall of a company. If you’ve got a mirror RAID and expect it to protect your data, you should probably make a backup right now. It certainly wouldn’t hurt.
Yahoo storing your data less now
Back in the day Google started with the 18 months of data retention. Privacy advocates voiced their concerns over this issue when it first came up. Yahoo now has decided to only keep your web surfing data for 3 months. Possibly for 6 months depending on how security conscious they are feeling that day. Google keeps data for 9 months and Microsoft 6 months. There’s no ‘industry standard’ so each company is free to set whatever limits they deem fit. Will this affect how “related” those flash/java advertisements are? Hopefully I’ll stop getting those damn LavaLife and Match ads on the side bars when I’m surfing my favorite wholesome sites.
