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.
A potentially serious side-effect of deleting old accounts is that someone else can register under that name. If a third party sends a message to the old account, now your information is up for grabs.
I've got many old email accounts that I would like to cancel, but other people / organizations keep using them to send me mail. Mail that isn't all that important but still I'd rather not have it fall into the wrong hands.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 11.3 ms ] threadIn 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.
I've got many old email accounts that I would like to cancel, but other people / organizations keep using them to send me mail. Mail that isn't all that important but still I'd rather not have it fall into the wrong hands.