A few months back someone working for Google was posting about how their whole job is ensuring deleted data actually gets removed from their systems. It isn't instant but from what they said it seems to work itself through their systems in a relatively timely fashion.
Yeah I think that user was responding to a question I had.
One of their points was Google has specific written policies about what deleting means and a team(s) whose job it is to do it and make sure it happens.
A few months back someone working for Google was posting about how their whole job is ensuring deleted data actually gets removed from their systems. It isn't instant but from what they said it seems to work itself through their systems in a relatively timely fashion.