Vanish: This Article Will Self-Destruct In 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ...
By News Staff
When we were kids, you could do stupid things and, if you absolutely needed them to be left behind, you moved away and never spoke to your old friends again. Now stupid things end up on YouTube. Forever.
What if you don't want your college-era rants showing up in a job interview?
University of Washington researchers say they have developed a way to make online information expire. After a set time period, electronic communications such as e-mail, Facebook posts and chat messages would automatically self-destruct, becoming irretrievable from all Web sites, inboxes, outboxes, backup sites and home computers. Not even the sender could retrieve them.
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