I started with a very interesting article about what you might find in a college newspaper that would be interesting to an investigator.
One thing leads to another and I also found an article about a study of how quickly social sites remove pictures. Some sites take up to 30 days to really get rid of the offending images. This is an important thing to understand if your are looking for derogatory pictures.
Your (journalistic) past can haunt you online
Once the cat is out of the bag, you probably won’t be able to catch her and stuff her back inside…
That (now) embarrassing article you wrote for your college newspaper three years ago? It’s still online. And when people Google you, they find it…
Apparently a lot of student newspapers are receiving requests from former student writers to remove or “hide” (from Google) articles of which they are now ashamed…
…requests by former students who were featured in articles in the student newspaper. Campus police arrests for drunkenness, that sort of thing. They would like those articles to be removed or “hidden.”…
Here’s a related story about someone trying to get an old newspaper story erased from the search engines. Article published in The Seattle Times on Aug. 15, 2008.
Websites keep deleted photos, study shows
Cambridge researchers have shown that photos aren’t always deleted when users ask, causing a major ‘data remanence’ issue for cloud computing.
According to a study of 16 social networking, blogging and photo sharing sites…most of them failed to remove photos after users deleted them…
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