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> I think websites have a resposibility to validate the email and delete the account if it isn't validate in a reasonable amount of time or have a link to delet
by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> I think websites have a resposibility to validate the email and delete the account if it isn't validate in a reasonable amount of time or have a link to delete the account if someone who signed up wasn't you.
Why do you think this? It would help if you pointed to a statute imposing this obligation, as I've never heard of one.
You might do better to make an argument that they had an obligation to delete the accounts of people who paid them specifically for the service of deleting their account. Which it appears that in many or all cases, they did not.
- orionblastar 11y agoAlas there is no statute that protects people and their email addresses from abuse in this way. Anyone can enter an email into a webform even one that isn't even theirs and create an account and get away with it. I myself never found out who was entering my email into dating sites and other places. I wanted to talk to them and tell them to stop, but I was powerless to do anything. When you share a name with 300 other men in the USA, and some of them forgot to enter a number or series of letters for their own address, it comes back to my address. My point is that I found out the hard way that most websites don't even bother to validate the email, take any email, and people who own that email get unwanted messages from that site.