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If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward

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439 points diggan | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 11:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.447s | source
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AlecSchueler ◴[29 Aug 25 12:01 UTC] No.45062904[source]▶
Am I the only one that assumed everything was already being used for training?
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hexage1814 ◴[29 Aug 25 13:36 UTC] No.45063951[source]▶
This. It's the same innocence of people who believe when you delete a document on Google/META/Apple/Microsoft servers, it "really" gets deleted. Google most likely has a backup of every piece of information indexed by them in the last 20 years or so. It would cause envy to the Internet Archive.
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1. bwillard ◴[29 Aug 25 14:01 UTC] No.45064261[source]▶
Officially, up to you if you believe they are following their policies, all of the companies have published statements on how long they keep their data after deletion (which customers broadly want to support recovery if something goes wrong).

- Google: active storage for "around 2 months from the time of deletion" and in backups "for up to 6 months": https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention?hl=en-US

- Meta: 90 days: https://www.meta.com/help/quest/609965707113909/

- Apple/iCloud: 30 days: https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/delete-files-mm3b7fcd...

- Microsoft: 30-180 days: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/assurance/assur...

So if it ends up that they are storing data longer there can be consequences (GDPR, CCPA, FTC).

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2. toyg ◴[29 Aug 25 15:19 UTC] No.45065287[source]▶
TBH, I'd be surprised if they kept significant amounts around for longer, for the simple reason that it costs money. Yes, drives are cheap, but the electricity to keep them online for months and years is definitely not free, and physical space is not infinite. This is also why some of their services have pretty aggressive deletion policies (like recordings in MS Teams, etc).