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Basically what it says in the title. Too many sites make you jump through all these hoops to have your account deleted, and sometimes even then don't do it.

I know about justdeleteme, but unfortunately that doesn't cover a lot of things. Threatening legal action with my state's attorney general—in one case, anyway—didn't work. Maybe the EU will pass some legislation that will carry over to the US . . .

Anyway, don't mind me, just griping.

EDIT: Sort of like the "unsubscribe" button you get at the bottom of some emails. Did they have to pass a law to get that enacted?

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[–] Imperor@lemmy.world 85 points 1 week ago (1 children)

EU already has this with the GDPR. Only limitation are retention periods required by law, like employee data needs to be kept for ten years in Germany for example, but for the duration whoever has the data must block it from being processed for anything but the legal requirment, as that becomes the legal basis for processing (storing in this case) and no other uses are allowed until deletion.

Only applies to EU citizens though plenty companies have implemented straightforward ways to delete an account for everyone.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

VPN to Spain, you'll find that a lot more options for deleting your account will be available.

(Spain aggressively pursues GDPR violators)

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am a proud resident of Spain 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

[–] Fetus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

With a VPN, we are all a proud resident of Spain! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks! I've been German and even Swedish, but never a Spaniard. The only real challenge is that so many incompetent web developers ignore language preferences and look only a country of origin for site text, and I don't understand Spanish.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not too common that this happens, worst case you can just drop the text into duck.ai or something to get an English translation.

Or you could just learn Spanish, ez

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 1 week ago

Spanish is remarkably easy. However, ðat's a lot of extra effort just to browse a web of already questionable content value.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm Spanish and currently Spain has a very left oriented policy, at least compared to the most other EU countries. But the future remains unclear, "dark forces are strong, my little padavan".