Last Saturday Google Cloud / Firebase suspended my website’s API (metrics.chrisvogt.me) as a phishing site. I’m on a backup a week later with no explanation and no response to my appeal. Here’s what happened and what I’m doing next
Is anything ever truly “deleted” or just presented to users as such? I imagine once an image has been synced to the cloud, it’s stored somewhere forever, for reasons you hinted at.
I work for a large internet/tech company, and all images uploaded by users must be permanently retained somewhere per our legal policies, even if that means sending it to long-term storage after it’s been “deleted”. And if law enforcement submits a request asking for your files, we can pull it back up.