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I think Google just hoarded my “deleted” Fitbit data

12 points by jb775 ↗ HN
Here's my conspiracy theory: Google wrote a script to export data from "deleted" Fitbit user accounts, but forgot to disable functionality linked to the related auto-emails.

Timetable:

11/1/19 @ 11:14am: Received "Confirm your Fitbit data export request" email (I requested this export manually)

11/1/19 @ 11:23am: Received "Your export has begun" email (after I logged in and confirmed)

11/1/19 @ 11:58am: Received "Your export has completed" email

11/1/19 @ 1:16pm: Immediately after deleting my Fitbit account, received a confirmation email stating: After 7 days: Your account is frozen and can't be recovered

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11/11/19 @ 10:38am: Received "Confirm your Fitbit data export request" email (I did not make this request, and can't even log into Fitbit)

11/11/19 @ 10:38am: Received "Your export has begun" email

11/11/19 @ 10:38am: Received "Your export has completed" email

5 comments

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londons_explore
Check the message id's to see if it is in fact the same email you are seeing again.

Also check any id's in the URL for differences - if there is no difference in the confirmation code, then it's an old email being resent, possibly because some mail server on the route didn't correctly ACK your message.

jb775
The URL id's are different, I don't see any message id's.
natdempk
In your mail client if you hit "Show original message" or "View message source" or something similar you should be able to see a Message-ID header on the raw MIME email message itself.
username90
Alternatively the bug is that the final script to delete the data also sends the same emails.