This Article Will Self-destruct: Tool To Make Online Personal Data Vanish

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 22:14 in Mathematics & Economics

Private information scattered all over the Internet and impossible to control. A new system, called Vanish, puts an expiry date on electronic text. Electronic communication sent using Vanish -- such as e-mail, Facebook posts and chat messages -- would have a brief lifetime and then self-destruct.

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