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===Return, or {{confiprov|put beyond practical use}}?===

In this modern era of distributed network computing, the usual entreaties to “[[Return of information - Confi Provision|return all copies of information]]” are faintly absurd: as if they’ve been kept in a manila folder in a filing cabinet somewhere, only inspected by chaperoned employees wearing white cotton gloves. Of course, everything will have been transmitted electronically, will exist in clouds, on blockchains and on servers all around the world, and the very action of attempting to “return” it will oblige it to be copied onto other servers etc. etc. Some of these copies will be stored for years under legally mandated [[document retention policy|document retention policies]], but other entities will just be anal — or useless — about hoarding information.