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But you do trust them to delete the data you gave them when you ask nicely?

• Xylakant 4y ago
  At the moment, that request might still be handled by a microservice written by the old staff that does the right thing. If that microservice is still up. The future is much more uncertain.
  • arkh 4y ago
    > At the moment, that request might still be handled by a microservice written by the old staff that does the right thing. That's being optimistic. The old microservice was written before GDPR took effect. When data management was "get everything, keep everything, storage is cheap, we (or some 3 letters agency) may find a use for it 10 years from now".
    • Xylakant 4y ago
      That might be true, but in any case, if you don’t trust the new owner to do the right thing, then the present state is still preferable over any future state.
• DesiLurker 4y ago
  its better than leaving it out there, also there are compliance laws like GDPR in some jurisdictions (similar in California) where they have to be more careful with data. overall I'd rather ask them to delete it & have them try to jump through hoops to resurrect it. further as GP mentioned, this should provide some protection from unintentional breaches. push come to shove I am prepared to delete the account and ask my friends to follow me on mastodon, its really not that much of lock-in with twitter.
• rich_sasha 4y ago
  Sounds like a product. Pay X for us not to leak your embarrassing tweets from N years ago that we "deleted" (lol).