Security researcher 'concerned' to find Twitter is not deleting your deleted direct messages

When you delete a direct message on Twitter, it is gone forever, right? From a user's point of view, this is true -- a deleted message vanishes. But a security researcher has discovered that Twitter is actually hanging onto these messages. Karan Saini found that he was able to see messages he deleted years ago when he downloaded an archive of his Twitter data from the site. See also: Facebook is ready to fight back against anti-vaxxers Health experts call on Facebook to close anti-vaxxer groups Open letter signed by Mozilla demands Facebook take 'real action' against disinformation Upon obtaining… [Continue Reading]