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The challenge of deleting old online accounts | Loudwhisper (loudwhisper.me)
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/32096847

In the last days I spent a disproportionate amount deleting old accounts I found in my password manager, and mostly because so many companies - despite the GDPR - have rudimentary, manually when not completely nonexistent processes to delete your data.

In this post I describe my process going through about 100 old accounts and trying to delete them all, including a top 10 for the weirdest, funniest or most interesting cases I encountered while doing so.

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[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thank you @loudwhisper@infosec.pub

[โ€“] loudwhisper@infosec.pub 4 points 6 days ago

Thank you for sharing. I have become weirdly fascinated with the weird or horrific processes to delete your data, so I am very interesting in hearing other people similar experiences!