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Just got some spam mail from someone called Sam Lessin about a podcast they’ve launched called “More or Less”. The interesting part:
“Since you follow one of us on twitter, we thought you might be interested in the content since you follow either Jessica or Sam on Twitter.”
So not only has Twitter/X not deleted my data but it looks like they might still be making it available via their API.
I guess I need to send an update to the Irish DPC on my ongoing complaint.
CC @noybeu
@aral could be just a lie. Or optimistic guess.
Or an old dataset they purchased years ago.
Is there any proof this would be data from right before the deletion request? Like a unique emailaddress, a canary character or so?
@berkes Could be. I’ll bring it up and let them sort it out ;)
@aral: Always assuming the following on X is in fact a real fact. I've never been on many platforms that spam claims I use.
@aral
I appreciate you are making a point about Twitter, but the concept of sending unsolicited email through an unrelated connection like this also just ticks me off. I once got a _phone call_ saying something like "we see you visited our site and would like to ask if you needed anything".
I did in fact visit their site, but I did not leave any contact information.
They had found the name of our company based on the IP I was connecting from (connecting from the office) in their website logs, and decided that was enough reason to contact us.
Insane brainworms on that one...
@kingannoy Oh yeah, but they’re Silicon Valley VCs. It goes without saying that they’re going to be asshats engaged in asshattery.
@aral @noybeu
The BBC has a statistics explainer programme & podcast on Radio4 called "More or Less" - I don't know if "The More or Less Podcast" in your post is related to that one.
My thoughts on being spammed :-
I've experienced cross-company "sharing" of data and the *we're never-really-going-to-delete-your-account* policy. Meta are the leaders in that.
I haven't deleted my twttr account, yet content from that is still reflected on services I use elsewhere but now I'm seeing content/ads on YouTube that can only be related to my Fedi account!
I've also just got an email from Google about their new inactive account policy. I reckon that once an account is inactive it will probably be archived and only accessible by legal process but never actually deleted. "Inactive Account" data will still be treated as a resource by companies.