Social Sites Keep Deleted Pictures

British researchers say user photographs can still be found on many social networking sites including Facebook after people have deleted them.

The findings by a team from Cambridge University raise questions about the ability of users of these sites to permanently delete potentially embarrassing photographs.

Researchers say that although the images appeared to have gone, they were still able to find them 30 days later on seven sites, including Facebook, by using the direct web addresses.

The researchers posted photographs on 16 popular websites and noted the web addresses where the images were stored, before deleting them.

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