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Should I delete my existing bad social medias accounts or just let them die by stagnation? (feddit.it)

submitted 2 days ago by dontblink@feddit.it to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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For some of them I kind of lost access so I would need to write emails to instagram or whatever, for others I would need to remember and to access to each one of them and delete them.

The hardest would be gmail with people having my contacts from like 10 years ago..

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[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

for myself, if i can recover passwords etc, i delete the account to lower the possibility of that data being used to train ai, and to lower the numbers of registered accounts they have.

i think stakeholders are more likely to see accounts being deleted as worse than an inactive account, because people can always come back to an inactive account.

so many websites are eager to keep users by making it difficult to delete accounts, or by adding a 14 day wait before they'll delete an account, etc., so that alone makes me think they want even inactive accounts for usage statistics or to steal data from.

[–] terminal@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dont think deleting your account actually removes the content from their servers just removes the ability to find it for other users. I imagine companies like meta retain everything you put up and is free to train ai with it.

[–] illi@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Likely true, but it'd also be a GDPR violation afaik

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And we all know that is tech companies follow eu laws.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

The one I work for at least tries to. We really don't like getting penalties and negative press.