In the last days I spent a disproportionate amount deleting old accounts I found in my password manager, and mostly because so many companies - despite the GDPR - have rudimentary, manually when not completely nonexistent processes to delete your data.

In this post I describe my process going through about 100 old accounts and trying to delete them all, including a top 10 for the weirdest, funniest or most interesting cases I encountered while doing so.

  • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    The “development team” literally replaced my username with “DELETED”, supposedly in a literal interpretation of “can you delete this user?” request, and that’s it.

    Should’ve asked "can you admin this user? 😅

    • loudwhisper@infosec.pubOP
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      3 hours ago

      Eh, the thing is I made the formal request using data deletion module, but I just assumed that’s what the support person asked the development person (“team”), assuming it was not the same person for both!