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Re: Just Delete Me

#11

Post by rmlewisuk »

andrew_gardener wrote: post #10
slg wrote: post #6

It isn't really feasible for a service like this, but it would be interesting to know what each of these sites do with your data once your account is deleted. Facebook has recently come under fire for their ghost profiles and I can't imagine they are the only company that keeps data on people who aren't official users.

I second this. Maybe they could add an extra note detailing any know user data retained by the service (at least as far as the general public knows)

We are looking at adding more information such as data retention, etc.

Re: Just Delete Me

#13

Post by slg »

rmlewisuk wrote: post #11
andrew_gardener wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I second this. Maybe they could add an extra note detailing any know user data retained by the service (at least as far as the general public knows)

We are looking at adding more information such as data retention, etc.

That sounds great. The only problem is that you just have to accept the word of whatever PR person you talk to at these companies. Not that I really expect them to flat out lie to you, but I wouldn't necessarily expect the whole and complete truth either.

Re: Just Delete Me

#14

Post by hugoroy »

rmlewisuk wrote: post #11
andrew_gardener wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I second this. Maybe they could add an extra note detailing any know user data retained by the service (at least as far as the general public knows)

We are looking at adding more information such as data retention, etc.

Hm. Do you really want to do that on your own? You'd have to find the ToS, document ToS changes, analyse the ToS, etc.

We're trying to do that already at http://tosdr.org, please join in (http://github.com/tosdr) and http://tosback.org

Edit: Hm I thought 5apps supported https already, i guess i was wrong

Re: Just Delete Me

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Post by ngoel36 »

[deleted] wrote: post #17
cremnob wrote: post #9

Can you delete a HN account?

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False. From the FAQ:

In my profile, what does showdead do?

If you turn it on, you'll see all the submissions and comments that have been killed by the editors. They're mostly spam and duplicates.

Re: Just Delete Me

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Post by [deleted] »

rmlewisuk wrote: post #11
andrew_gardener wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I second this. Maybe they could add an extra note detailing any know user data retained by the service (at least as far as the general public knows)

We are looking at adding more information such as data retention, etc.

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