Ask HN: What if your service ends up hosting explicit content?
What are our duties (European, specifically UK) regarding data that may contain explicit information?
We happened to come across this content from our logs that contain the repository name and since the account broke our terms of service, we've terminated the account and removed the directory from our servers.
The concerns we now have is that:
1. The content was, at some point, stored on our hosting provider. We've removed it once we came across the content, but would we be at fault for not recognising sooner? 2. The text files were accessed via CloudFlare, we don't "host" the content per-se, but provide access to the analysed files. 3. Even though the content has gone, we still have a history in the logs that we had this content.
What do we do? We're not technically hosting the data, it's stored for analyses and speed - you cannot access the raw files directly. We've removed the account because it does violate both ours and our service provider terms.