Deleting your account or wiping information off your site does not mean it is gone. In an ever growing number of countries, the telcommunications industry is required, by law, to retain various amounts and types of account or communications data for periods of 6 to 12 months. Even when you've gone your data is still available to be used against you. Even if you have a valid complaint and you do win in court, the released data is still out there. You will never completely erase it. When you're on the WWW, you're ultimately responsible for you own security. You need to calculate the risk to your future and determine whether the risk is acceptable whenever you put something on the web. So basically, if you don't want the world to know something, don't put it on the web!
More data retention details available here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention
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