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If you, like most people in this thread, find this incredibly unethical and/or potentially damaging to your relationship with your current employer and as a result you are trying to delete your account, do one thing first:

Obfuscate your information before you hit the delete button!

Change your name, change your address, change the email to a throwaway, etc.

Yes, they -might- delete your information when you ask, but do they deserve your trust that they will get this right? If you are deleting your account you implicitly are saying you don’t trust their ability to manage this situation the way you would.

Keep in mind one likely outcome of this event is that they go out of business. Whoever buys their assets may well end up with a trove of data that includes your details.

>>sulam+(OP)
and what does stop them from using backups with unchanged data anyways?

At least for internal/statistical purposes.

>>Xelbai+j5
The goal is to prevent public profile with your real data first. If they publish backup of your profile it would be next level violation of trust

>>Xelbai+j5
If they are _determined_ to use your data, they will have backed up before they announced this and saved it off somewhere. Normal backup mechanisms won't get the job done, though, because they typically age out. GDPR and CCPA both require backups to explicitly not allow for restoration, although of course they could ignore both.

>>Xelbai+j5
Nothing if they take the trouble to make it work. This is just stocastic damage control, reducing somewhat the likelyhood of your real info being used, and there are many reasons why it probably works.