

or made public—privacy is always temporary.
Personal opinion, this is much more applicable to paper data than it is to digital data.
Magnetic tape storage has one of the longest lifespans for storage before data corruption and even that seems to at best be about thirty years. Even with ideal conditions for storage this is a very short shelf life.
Without regular backups digital data degrades rather quickly and is difficult to recover after corruption.
Beyond that quickly changing technology standards makes it harder to recover old data. PATA/IDE was the standard 20 years ago, how many people realistically have the tools available to recover an IDE drive when all they have is a slick laptop with a USB-C port? Specialized tools must be used to even recover from recent types of media.


Public defenders are also not offered for civil cases. If you need a lawyer for your civil case, you either need to find someone who will work for you pro bono or you have to risk filing it yourself and doing it wrong.