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

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

#61
Tracking you for "free" Google Search, Google DNS, Google Photos(geo location, faces, maybe object recognition), Google Recaptcha, Google Analytics.

Arbor Network Atlas anti ddos service on the tier one ISP level. Seeing flow samples of most traffic anti DDOS through network flow logs of many major tier one internet networks.

Cloudflare CDN major focal point of internet traffic.

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

#62
Most companies will not "delete" your account. They will deactivate your account. It is hard to delete things in SQL databases that use FKs, and in many cases it is illegal or inadvisable to delete all customer data (e.g. if you need to keep invoices for accounting reasons, or if you are eligible for chargebacks). Small startups are often busy trying to keep everything working and go after their key metrics and don't have time to build a system robust enough to handle deletions.

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

#63
I wonder about the ranking for the 'Communication' category. Somehow there are protocols, clients and services mixed up. To give an example of each:

- Service: Jabber.org

- Protocol: OMEMO

- Software: Gajim

Next, the score seems to be a similar mix up, not so much focused on security but more as a general recommendation as a trade off between number of features and overall security. To me that feels like a bad advise. That way, a very respectable and stable app like Conversations is listed below the protocol it uses (OMEMO) and even below Tox which is officially listed as experimental, just because conversations doesn't support audio or video telephony.

Other privacy related aspects, like the need to register a phone number to use the service, automatic contact list uploads or custom servers, are completely ignored.

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

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post #59

Something's up with the site, at least for me. The table content doesn't load - I see the different options (email, etc.) but no entries. Firefox console tells me: ---- Loading failed for the with source “ https://secured.fyi/analytics/piwik.js” : naughtylist.html:1 The resource at “ https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/embedcode/horizontal-slim-1... was blocked because tracking protection is enabled: naughtylist.html So…

The table pulls data from a Google Sheet. When the spreadsheet is updated, the table is populated with data. You have to run the site's jquery, otherwise it's not going to work.

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

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post #60
post #59

Something's up with the site, at least for me. The table content doesn't load - I see the different options (email, etc.) but no entries. Firefox console tells me: ---- Loading failed for the with source “ https://secured.fyi/analytics/piwik.js” : naughtylist.html:1 The resource at “ https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/embedcode/horizontal-slim-1... was blocked because tracking protection is enabled: naughtylist.html So…

I have problems with FF too (+uBlock Origin +DuckDuckGo Privacy). Loading the data from Google seems to fail: code 403 message Requests from referer https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/1A3xz8NFWjebuMbGWvy2yUBKcnAmuZSs5JmKq9-JDss8/values/Email?key=AIzaSyCxiboNdLE5nSch2pdwI3blsfvfyss3Y0M are blocked. status PERMISSION_DENIED

Read my previous reply.

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

#66
post #48

Occasionally I go through my password manager to do a cleanup of accounts I no longer use. For the simple reason that if any one of those services get hacked, I don't want to lose credit card- or personal information, and have that end up in the hands of somebody who shouldn't have it. In trying to delete a few accounts, some services outright refused to delete my info, without giving any reason. Therefore, I've deci…

Clean this up a bit and you can br troyhunt for gdpr and command corresponding consulting fees.

Clean this up in what way?

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

#67
post #61

Tracking you for "free" Google Search, Google DNS, Google Photos(geo location, faces, maybe object recognition), Google Recaptcha, Google Analytics. Arbor Network Atlas anti ddos service on the tier one ISP level. Seeing flow samples of most traffic anti DDOS through network flow logs of many major tier one internet networks. Cloudflare CDN major focal point of internet traffic.

Not sure what you mean.

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

#68
post #58

Thanks, I appreciate the thought and effort. There is too much special sauce on the page for me to see the actual list (perhaps one of your critical resources is already on my blacklist or too third partyish). Thought you may be able to make use of http://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/ to help with your checking. (no affiliation) Plus it is great when a study like that is reproduced and vetted for drift. Thanks a…

Thanks :)
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