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Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by fredrikaurdal on Saturday March 24, 2018 @06:56AM (#16665963)
Occasionally I go through my password manager to do a cleanup of accounts I no longer use. For the simple reason that if any one of those services get hacked, I don't want to lose credit card- or personal information, and have that end up in the hands of somebody who shouldn't have it.

In trying to delete a few accounts, some services outright refused to delete my info, without giving any reason. Therefore, I've decided in to create a naughty list of tech companies who don't respect your right to your own information.

There are already 261 sites in the list, but let me know if there are any other services you think I should add.

Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by marcc on Saturday March 24, 2018 @10:56AM (#16666882)
I like this idea a lot. With GDPR on the horizon, this is a great resource to put together.

I’m a little confused about the implementation right now. I don’t understand Rank and Score specifically. The columns need some explanation to make it clearer if a higher number is good or bad, what the number is representing, and how it’s calculated.

Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by fredrikaurdal on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:13AM (#16666975)
Changed, clarification added.
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by daxfohl on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:34PM (#16667438)
Clean this up a bit and you can br troyhunt for gdpr and command corresponding consulting fees.
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by fredrikaurdal on Saturday March 24, 2018 @02:13PM (#16667948)
Clean this up in what way?
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by et-al on Saturday March 24, 2018 @03:21PM (#16668344)
The navigation is a bit confusing. I didn't know the landing page was the "Naughty List". And I was expecting each "category" to filter the existing list, not show a new list of websites/companies.

Also, the ranking list isn't that helpful when 20-some companies are tied for 3rd.

Do you work with any UX designers? Get some feedback from them. It's not about making it pretty as much as it's about presenting the content in a clear way.

Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by fredrikaurdal on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:53AM (#16696766)
It's not perfect, but what I could build in a short amount of time. I'm working on creating a much better and more intuitive system.
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by et-al on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:50AM (#16705526)
Great! Apologies if my older post was a bit curt. I'm glad you're building this.

btw, have you seen the 2FA List? https://twofactorauth.org/

Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by daveid on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:09AM (#16666953)
Why is Mastodon listed as "does not delete account"? Look under Security -> Delete account
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by fredrikaurdal on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:16AM (#16666998)
Updated to Yes - Partially, because don't guarantee deletion of all data.
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by daveid on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:25AM (#16667052)
I don't know what you mean. Mastodon deletes all the data from the server, and sends out delete payloads to other servers that may have stored copies. If you refer to the fact that some of those copies may remain, then you need to mark all services as not allowing account deletion because Google may have caches of indexed profile and post pages.
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by fredrikaurdal on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:34AM (#16667100)
Changed, replied to another message.
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by fredrikaurdal on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:30AM (#16667080)
Very true, most other services don't even try to delete all data like messages received by others. Changed.
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by alphamonster on Saturday March 24, 2018 @10:59AM (#16666899)
It would help to explain your scores a bit (is +10 worse than -10?)
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by fredrikaurdal on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:11AM (#16666960)
Thanks! I changed the scoring system slightly, and added an explanation.
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by chrischen on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:28AM (#16667071)
It looks like the major password managers are on the list.
Re:Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information by raizinho on Saturday March 24, 2018 @01:02PM (#16667562)
Upstart.