Comment on The challenge of deleting old online accounts | Loudwhisper
Cherry@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Great read thanks. It’s a quest I have stated here and there but you methods an awareness gives inspiration to the tedious task. Would you be willing to share the email template you used?
loudwhisper@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Thanks for the kind words!
I won’t take credits for the template, I have used the one found here: datarequests.org/…/sample-letter-gdpr-erasure-req…
Cherry@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Did you enquire with any if they had sold/shared your data.
I suppose it could be an endless quest trying to trace and delete everything. I know that wasn’t your aim. Just curious as I am starting to do this. We can’t trust online with anything anymore so time to start wiping my footprints of what I still can. And my account list is a good place to start.
loudwhisper@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Hey, I haven’t, but to be honest, the answers I got from most companies showed me that the processes were handled by people who barely understood the legal and technical aspects around data collection (e.g., often support agents were on the other side of privacy@), which means I wouldn’t trust them with their answer anyway AND I doubt many of these companies will have effective way to even check that.
From the data being sold point of view, I think unfortunately it’s way more effective reaching out to the few big data brokers to request cancelations or pay one of the companies who offer such service…