Comments on: Social networking privacy – forgetting your password and closing your account http://blogsecurity.net/social-networking/social-networking-privacy-forgetting-your-password-and-closing-your-account Always something worth reading... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:09:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: DK http://blogsecurity.net/social-networking/social-networking-privacy-forgetting-your-password-and-closing-your-account/comment-page-1#comment-1765 DK Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:05:22 +0000 http://blogsecurity.net/social-networking/social-networking-privacy-forgetting-your-password-and-closing-your-account/#comment-1765 Enlightening posts as always Sarah! Enlightening posts as always Sarah!

]]> By: LKP http://blogsecurity.net/social-networking/social-networking-privacy-forgetting-your-password-and-closing-your-account/comment-page-1#comment-1753 LKP Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:33:51 +0000 http://blogsecurity.net/social-networking/social-networking-privacy-forgetting-your-password-and-closing-your-account/#comment-1753 Indeed, on most sites it is a pain trying to get rid off your credentials. In the sites I've tried to delete an account (most of them you've already mentioned) there are two problems. One, it is a pain trying to delete the account, and I mean it. It's most difficult trying to delete the account that to create one, we could think that all the troubles to delete the account is because they want to make sure that you actually are trying to delete an account, something like a security matter, but as you well pointed out, there's no security. The problem two is that, security, most of them don't really delete all your data, but again, they said that is a related to privacy police, but how can we talk about "privacy" if I am not able to erase the data I created...so I gues privacy have many denominations. A shame indeed. Regards LKP Indeed, on most sites it is a pain trying to get rid off your credentials.

In the sites I’ve tried to delete an account (most of them you’ve already mentioned) there are two problems.

One, it is a pain trying to delete the account, and I mean it. It’s most difficult trying to delete the account that to create one, we could think that all the troubles to delete the account is because they want to make sure that you actually are trying to delete an account, something like a security matter, but as you well pointed out, there’s no security.

The problem two is that, security, most of them don’t really delete all your data, but again, they said that is a related to privacy police, but how can we talk about “privacy” if I am not able to erase the data I created…so I gues privacy have many denominations.

A shame indeed.

Regards
LKP

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