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Well, if you have made your account impossible for you, or anyone aside from certain employees of those companies, to access, the account is deleted. I mean, th

Well, if you have made your account impossible for you, or anyone aside from certain employees of those companies, to access, the account is deleted. I mean, the social network MySpace, which still exists today (and is currently ranked #1,343 in the US by Alexa [0]), can have tons of data about you from 2006 to 2008, just as Yahoo Search can have tons of data about you from 1995 to 1998, but if you have completely stopped using both of those websites altogether, what's the value there? Better yet, a girl you dated for the past 3 years but then broke up with could have tons of knowledge about you, and photos, and videos, but unless you're a politician, celebrity, or high-level business executive, where's the risk there? I'm not saying it's risk-free for everyone, but for the majority of people, it effectively is. Even just consider how Snapchat became so popular among teenagers over the last few years; new generations use new technologies, including, in this case, computer programs, which are now called apps, and even Windows 10 retrofitted that word from smartphones to desktop computers. [0] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/myspace.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/myspace.com

Fnoord 9y ago
> Well, if you have made your account impossible for you, or anyone aside from certain employees of those companies, to access, the account is deleted. Eh, no, that isn't the same at all. There's 2 clear cases where this is proven: 1) In the case the company still uses profiling on your personal data in order to profit from you. (Or, if they still contact you in relation to your supposedly deleted account as pointed out by people throughout this thread.) 2) In the case of a security breach the data used for profiling (which was supposedly deleted) can be breached, shared, etc (a good way to figure out where spam comes from is using catch-all e-mail addresses something which ironically works great with Gmail). For people in the EU, if they ask a company to delete their account, that company has to comply which includes any and all of their data. I don't know how it is for US but as a general statement I do wish our friends overseas including in the land of the free have solid laws to protect the individual citizens since I find that an integral part of a free nation. Even from a moral PoV it makes sense (not that publicly owned companies have any sense of moral). Because in the end with a profiling service company you are the product, gaining access to a gratis service. When you decide to stop using the service, you are no longer benefiting from them; why should they benefit from you in the years to come? With security risks attached? > Better yet, a girl you dated for the past 3 years but then broke up with could have tons of knowledge about you, and photos, and videos, but unless you're a politician, celebrity, or high-level business executive, where's the risk there? No offence, this is very ignorant. Everyone has something to hide. Moreover, revenge porn is an example which perfectly fits your scenario. But that was done with consent at that moment; there's other complex scenarios where the cat is out of the bag like bullying videos on the school yard. > Even just consider how Snapchat became so popular among teenagers over the last few years And there are many ways to record the data received via Snapchat. As long as the space between device and eyes is analog, there's always going to exist one loophole there. A loophole you won't hear Snapchat about as it doesn't serve their investors/shareholders.

Fnoord 9y ago

> Well, if you have made your account impossible for you, or anyone aside from certain employees of those companies, to access, the account is deleted. Eh, no, that isn't the same at all. There's 2 clear cases where this is proven: 1) In the case the company still uses profiling on your personal data in order to profit from you. (Or, if they still contact you in relation to your supposedly deleted account as pointed out by people throughout this thread.) 2) In the case of a security breach the data used for profiling (which was supposedly deleted) can be breached, shared, etc (a good way to figure out where spam comes from is using catch-all e-mail addresses something which ironically works great with Gmail). For people in the EU, if they ask a company to delete their account, that company has to comply which includes any and all of their data. I don't know how it is for US but as a general statement I do wish our friends overseas including in the land of the free have solid laws to protect the individual citizens since I find that an integral part of a free nation. Even from a moral PoV it makes sense (not that publicly owned companies have any sense of moral). Because in the end with a profiling service company you are the product, gaining access to a gratis service. When you decide to stop using the service, you are no longer benefiting from them; why should they benefit from you in the years to come? With security risks attached? > Better yet, a girl you dated for the past 3 years but then broke up with could have tons of knowledge about you, and photos, and videos, but unless you're a politician, celebrity, or high-level business executive, where's the risk there? No offence, this is very ignorant. Everyone has something to hide. Moreover, revenge porn is an example which perfectly fits your scenario. But that was done with consent at that moment; there's other complex scenarios where the cat is out of the bag like bullying videos on the school yard. > Even just consider how Snapchat became so popular among teenagers over the last few years And there are many ways to record the data received via Snapchat. As long as the space between device and eyes is analog, there's always going to exist one loophole there. A loophole you won't hear Snapchat about as it doesn't serve their investors/shareholders.