External Hard Drives: A-Soon-To-Be Fogotton Memory

It was enevitable that something was going to take over the external hard drive craze and someone would make money storing other people's data. And why not? It's the perfect excuse not to get rid of any electronic data. And these companies have petabytes (exabytes, or zettabytes) of storage space, financed by your monthly or annual service payment. But who's watching the hen house? When you want things deleted, how can you be certain it's completely gone? Interesting food for thought....