Column We don't want to believe what we deeply understand: nothing is really deleted, and someone, somewhere can (and probably will) use that record against us. First I deleted all the hookup apps on my phone, before binning random and never used social apps like Periscope (remember them?) Now that more powerful entities have become increasingly watchful, we find ourselves careful, censorious of ourselves, and of others. We pray to be forgotten, so that when a border agent says, "Papers, please?" Unless someone somewhere has a dataset that wasn't deleted, and instead got integrated into a profiling database that an ICE agent has at their fingertips.