Delete My Account » $ thought

I have few questions for you -

For how many years, are you using Internet?
Can you remember all the sites where you created an account or shared your personal information? (Email, Phone number, Birth date etc.)
Although you can remember all the websites you registered, can you keep those accounts active forever?

Whenever I ask these questions to myself, I get uncomfortable. There are probably 50 websites, who have my online account and personal information. It might be more in most probability. Considering this might be similar situation for most of us, how to make sure that you can delete your account? Most of the websites like Google / Yahoo allows you to delete the account completely. Although few of my readers will love to debate about its actual process.

Considering our faith in these online services, I am not quite sure what does complete account removal means for these online websites (Facebook / Gmail / Yahoo etc). Even if it is not complete removal at least I have an option to go and remove my online account information. For most of the websites this option is not available at all!

I will love to make this as public awareness that we should have account removal as standard feature on all the websites who allow users to sign-up. It should be complete removal of account (including all personal information) and not limited to just un-subscribing user from their mailing list.

This will make lot of users much more comfortable to create online account.

http://pablogomes.com Pablo

I was organizing my websites registrations on a password manager and I was wondering the same thing.

I had way over 50 websites that I had registered to.

There should be a law that obliged websites to allow people to opt-out whenever they want…
http://valashiya.blogspot.com Helen Neely

Well, this is a bit too late now. In fact, your personal details have gone beyond the initial sites you submitted them. Their partners and third party companies have your details on file.

As long as you use online shopping accounts, banks and Amazon, your details can never be totally removed again.

My advice is to pretend they are not there and hope the details are not used to impersonate you later in the not so distant future.

Good luck
http://ashlin.wordpress.com Ashish

I removed my facebook, orkut and twitter account last friday. Except for FB orkut and twitter said the information would unrecoverable for me. I don’t really care if third parties have it or not. I’m pissed with FB’s response though. It seems you can not delete your account. You can only deactivate it and if later you change your mind you can just login using your old email/pwd and it will be just as well you never left. wtf? I know I know My bad I didn’t read their privacy statement.
http://yahoo malavika

i want to delet my account please