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The Verge reports that Match.com reactivated a bunch of old profiles, without asking. This raises many concerns about user data for those that might have missed the Facebook discussions recently.
[...] A Match Group spokesperson confirmed that a “limited number” of old accounts had been accidentally reactivated recently and that any account affected received a password reset. Match.com’s current privacy statement, which was last updated in 2016, says that the company can “retain certain information associated with your account” even after you close it. But that Match Group spokesperson also told The Verge that the company plans to roll out a new privacy policy “in the next month or so,” in order to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); under the new policy, all those years-old accounts will be deleted. The Verge has requested clarification on which accounts will qualify for deletion, and what “deletion” will specifically entail, but has not received a response as of press time.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @03:30AM (2 children)
Accept it. Embrace it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Spamalope on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:49AM
This is 'copy it between multiple corporate shells' so that they can pinky swear and say they have delete it from the shell you sent your request too. The other 10 shells and all the 3rd parties of course still have the data, and we of course sync the databases and will copy it back via that mechanism. But we really did delete your information from the servers, we just didn't tell you it it'll be temporary.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday April 26 2018, @10:08AM
Tell this to those that lost data to ransomware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford