Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

This site - hackernews - will not delete your account - full stop.

I sent in a request asking what steps were necessary to have one's account deleted. I was told this was not possible. This is unreasonable.

And yes, I created this account specifically to post this comment.

There really isn't a single, objective yes/no question that would capture all the nuances here. that's why "the other naughty list", i. e. the criminal justice system and regulatory agencies like the FTC employ judges, lawyers, and long processes to arrive at their nice/naughty lists.

What Uber comes down to is, I believe, essentially the same as the famous Zuckerberg chat message: 'They "Trust me". Dump fucks!'. Saying that isn't illegal by itself. But it shows a complete disregard for the publics' interests.

Every single one of Uber's actions could actually be excused. When, for example, Google admitted to capturing unencrypted Wifi traffic picked up by their Street View cars, I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, because that explanation seemed more consistent with their past (and future) behaviour than the alternative.

But the sum of Uber's actions leads me to believe they have misunderstood the causality their own motto proclaims, and are now intentionally breaking things in the hope that it will make them move faster.

GoDaddy will let you close your account, but you have to call customer service to do so. (After many years of having multiple domains with them, recently I decided to migrate all the domains I had with them over to other providers.)

One thing that is troubling is that if you have an expired domain with domain lock turned on, they will not delete your account until a year has passed from the non-renewal of the domain. The domain-lock feature cannot be turned off if that domain has been inactive for less than a year unless the domain is renewed. They told me they could not turn it off either so that the account could be closed, but I'm a bit skeptical on that, since it makes no sense that they cannot change the account settings with an authenticated customer making the request. Don't they control their own code? It strikes me as an excuse for them to leave the account open in case you change your mind.

In their favor, I was able to delete payment information immediately. Also, they have very friendly customer service representatives (though friendliness doesn't make up for powerlessness.)

Btw, this is an interesting and good service you are setting up. Thanks for your work!

Added.

I didn't see LinkedIn in this list?

A while ago I deleted my account, then recreated my account after a year, and requested a full backup history, this backup had my old contacts from the original Linkedin android app gathered from my old phone without my permission.