This ‘limited‘ period can go up to 30 months. Eventually, what happens is that the users, who have kept the direct link to photos that were originally uploaded to the social networking site, have been able to still gain access to them months, even years after deletion, the report said referring to one report in technology site, ArsTechnica.
A Facebook user said he had deleted an image from the site 2.5 years ago (30 months), and that it was still available to see on the site.
Another said a photo from April 2009 was still accessible after it was deleted.
Facebook spokesman, Simon Axten, told technology site that the company was actively working with its CDN on this issue, said the report.
”It‘s possible that someone, who previously had access to a photo and saved the direct URL from our content delivery network partner could still access the photo,” Axten said. ”However, again, the person would have to know the URL, and the photo only exists in the CDN‘s cache for a limited amount of time. We‘re working with the CDN to reduce the amount of time that the photo remains in its cache,” he added.
He said the company was currently working with the CDN on a fix that would delete photo and video content from the CDN‘s cache shortly after it‘s removed on Facebook.
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