[slg]

It isn't really feasible for a service like this, but it would be interesting to know what each of these sites do with your data once your account is deleted. Facebook has recently come under fire for their ghost profiles and I can't imagine they are the only company that keeps data on people who aren't official users.

[vog]

The only protection against this is to first anonymize your account data, e.g. by entering bogus or empty detail information. Maybe even change your email address to a temporary throwaway address, in case it is needed to complete your account "deletion".

Of course, they could have saved the previous versions of all profiles. But at least you're making it harder for them to check which version was the "correct" one (i.e. the one that has any value on market of personal profiles for spammers, marketing, etc.)

[andrew_gardener]

I second this. Maybe they could add an extra note detailing any know user data retained by the service (at least as far as the general public knows)

[rmlewisuk]

We are looking at adding more information such as data retention, etc.

[hugoroy]

Hm. Do you really want to do that on your own? You'd have to find the ToS, document ToS changes, analyse the ToS, etc.

We're trying to do that already at http://tosdr.org, please join in (http://github.com/tosdr) and http://tosback.org

Edit: Hm I thought 5apps supported https already, i guess i was wrong

[sengstrom]

Hmmm...

You attempted to reach tosdr.org, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.5apps.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of tosdr.org.

[bluefinity]

I'm guessing you have HTTPS Everywhere installed. It works fine on HTTP.

[slg]

That sounds great. The only problem is that you just have to accept the word of whatever PR person you talk to at these companies. Not that I really expect them to flat out lie to you, but I wouldn't necessarily expect the whole and complete truth either.

[pc86]

Are data retention policies generally in a site's TOS?

Not that that'd be much better than a PR rep, but it'd be easier to get at least.

[niels_olson]

I would monetarily support that.