Just Delete Me... a little warning

Complaints Corner
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As you all know, the Internet never forgets, and what you write on here will be kept for a million years and could be used as evidence against you!

But rejoice! There is a new website that will help you de-register from "some" popular websites. Some are easy, some are impossible to leave.

http://justdelete.me/

A famous coffee company is there at the front, stopping people from leaving: but why would a company not agree to deleting your account?

If you do want to delete, then you are not interested in buying any more stuff from them, so why make life difficult and antagonise your ex-customers?

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Unless you have a different format to me the site is in alphabetical order.

Starbucks shows as impossible along with amazon, godaddy, Netflix etc etc.

We all get it, you dont like starbucks but it's getting a bit tiresome.

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They like data. They like their data to be consistent; deleting customers' past records reduces that consistency (e.g. historical reporting results would change). They don't like work; deleting historical data generates work.

Get it yet?

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Somebody actively dislikes such a company? Bizarre

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I don't believe it either.

For me, there is nothing better than drive to Starbucks in my Audi, switch on my Macbook, update Facebook and feel like an individual.

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Just wonder if this website is not just another way to get that about where people is actually registered.

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Most likely. Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

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...which of course sets you apart as the quintessential non-conformist (just like all the other non-conformists).

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So steering this back on course, why (or indeed legally how) would companies lock you in with your details forever?

As I said above, if you want to leave, what can the company possibly gain by keeping your data?

What happened to the great ideas of "freedom" etc etc ?

I feel we should be able to demand that the companies delete all our details. It IS in Swiss law expressly stated:

that one can only keep data for as long as is actually necessary.

Example: if you run the local Swiss tennis club and a member leaves, the club must delete the member's details. (Data protection laws, - Datenschutz)

http://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classifie...153/index.html

Article 6

Cross-border disclosure

Personal data may not be disclosed abroad if the privacy of the data subjects would be seriously endangered thereby,

in particular due to the absence of legislation that guarantees adequate protection.

.

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ah but you have to understand what PII actually is to understand if you have a Data Protection issue.

and if the service to which you volunteered information to is in another jurisdiction, you have more issues.....

my advice is to give as little as possible and where they force you to enter certain data, lie unless a package might not arrive at your address.

you can't delete your EF profile but do you really think that is PII? Nope....

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Sorry but what's PII ? It is a Vatican based secret society of bankers P2, but I expect you mean some thing else.

PII is that Private Invasion Isues? Yes, of course I have dummy addresses ...

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Personally Identifiable Information

Not everything is protected under legislation.....lawyers make great money discussing the backside out of this all the time....

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3.1415926...

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It has little to do with Personally Identifiable Information per se, it has to do with selling your name on, to thieves and confidence tricksters.

I received an SMS this morning at 03:57 telling me I had won a lot of money, and to visit www.smscaster.com

(SMS is from an Irish number 00 35 38 60 63 15 33 )

I was in Ireland 4 weeks ago, but I did not knowingly give my mobile number to anyone, other than my friends.

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SMS is cheap, almost free. Just pick some numbers......blat away. There appears to be only a possible 847'425'747 mobile numbers available in Switzerland.....

Or..........

Someone with your contact details has put them somewhere or had them "acquired" so that they're available to the bad guys......

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It must be a stupid person, the website is for anonymous SMS, and ... well I am not going to call the number.

Thinking very hard, the US car hire company had my handy number, and an Irish theatre in Galway.

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So if I have a person's full name, mobile number and email addresss (which contains their real name), just how much damage can I do to them?

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I don't see English Forum on that list

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Nice looking site. They have a link to http://darkpatterns.org/ which documents the tricks sites use to upsell addons like travel insurance. It's worth watching the slidecast - very funny.

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great. now if only englishforum would let users edit/delete their own posts, or delete their own accounts.