I'd love to find out how to delete a bitstamp account, there's no links on their site.
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#52No AOL? It is a pain to delete AOL account.
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#53One sentence here is curious: > JustDelete.Me is a directory of urls to delete your account from web services. (Yes, I am aware how terrible that description is. If you’ve got a better one, let me know). Sounds like a fine description to me. (It's certainly better than average. I find the descriptions of about half of the "take a look at this site" posts on HN to be incomprehensible; it's nice to be able to read a po…
"Directory of urls" is a bit geeky and not quite accurate.
It's changed to "direct links" rather than "urls" now.
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#54Please cover ICQ here :-)
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#55Please cover ICQ here :-)
Blimey I didn't know anybody still used ICQ!!
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#56It 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.
The only protection against this is to first anonymize your account data, e.g. by entering bogus or empty detail information. Maybe even change your email address to a temporary throwaway address, in case it is needed to complete your account "deletion".
Of course, they could have saved the previous versions of all profiles. But at least you're making it harder for them to check which version was the "correct" one (i.e. the one that has any value on market of personal profiles for spammers, marketing, etc.)
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#57Why do people expect data about themselves to magically disappear from the Internet? One should always assume that everything you communicate online (explicitly or not) has the potential to exist forever.
Because we are talking about proper legal entities here. If I want my data deleted, they should have the means an the will to do so. Nothing "magical" at all.
It is not as if I am asking "the internet" to delete my stuff, but "facebook", "google" or "okcupid".
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#59What's concerning about companies that don't delete user info is that they don't consider it a liability, or don't believe they can be hacked. If people tell you to delete their PII and you don't, then lose it, isn't that a lawsuit waiting to happen?
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#60>Skype: Contact customer services. You’ll need to know 5 contacts from your contacts list, the month you created your account, and your signup email address.
Why do I get the feeling asking Skype to cancel your account immediately puts you into a special watchlist?