Fight to Be Forgotten: Exploring the Efficacy of Data Erasure in Popular Operating Systems
Published in Annual Privacy Forum 2019, 2019
Recommended citation: Gutmann, A., & Warner, M. (2019). Fight to be forgotten: Exploring the efficacy of data erasure in popular operating systems. In Privacy Technologies and Policy: 7th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2019, Rome, Italy, June 13–14, 2019, Proceedings 7 (pp. 45-58). Springer International Publishing. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10069549/
We analysed the user interface of two popular operating systems and found: (1) inconsistencies in the language used around delete and erase functions, (2) insecure default options, and (3) unclear or incomprehensible information around delete and erase functions.
Recommended citation: Gutmann, A., & Warner, M. (2019). Fight to be forgotten: Exploring the efficacy of data erasure in popular operating systems. In Privacy Technologies and Policy: 7th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2019, Rome, Italy, June 13–14, 2019, Proceedings 7 (pp. 45-58). Springer International Publishing.