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		HPsquared 69 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user priv... 30 days is perhaps a bit long, but they didn't keep them longer than that. It's pretty clear and reasonable. The dodgy thing is that they don't now warn users that all chats, including temporary, are now "Bcc: NYT"

mhitza 69 days ago [–]

The NYT requests samples between Dec 2022 and Dec 2024. The judge order to preserve chats came in effect this summer after OpenAI engineers deleted, claiming mistake, the VM in which NYT layers were processing data.

Dates and the 30 day default retention policy don't add up, when framing things this way.

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