Welp I guess this is the perfect example of companies not deleting your credentials and account info when asking for it… I deleted my Notion account several years ago. And completely randomly today got an email from them about data retention, assuming this is one of those “important” emails they have to send out. Sadly, years ago I wasnt using email-aliases like I am today, so still stuck with them having my email. Fuck I hate this so much. Thought I’d just share this lesson, use alises my friends!
This is a shit show. But from what I’ve been able to see, when you remove yourself from the companies, as time goes by, there’s not much of the data you leave behind that can be easily visible to others, other than whatever company has your data, or who they choose to sell it to.
I haven’t been in any social network for over 8 years now, except X, that I killed my account, coincidentally, the day before the acquisition was announced. Last night I did a Google search for my name in my country, and another one global, and the only place I found info about me, after digging down 30+ pages, was linked-in, which my wife manages for our business. Granted, they all probably hold all the data they got from me when I was stupider, but I’m sure they understand how useless data becomes over time if it’s not updated.
I guess my advantage is that I used Gmail accounts for absolutely everything back then, and since I killed all of them, I never get emails from anyone I’m not directly associated with.
When you ask them to delete your account they should delete your account. There is no excuse for them to have your contact information if you dont have an account with them