I look forward to hearing your report a year from now when Uber sends you a promotional code, or worse still, someone hacks Uber and discloses what ever information of yours wasn’t actually deleted by Uber.
In other words, I am doubtful that your account will actually ever be deleted.
So, in moving continents you’ve changed your name, your age and your email address, which is why you didn’t receive the notification from Uber … right?
My point was and continues to be that in my opinion it’s unlikely that your data will actually be removed.
If you want to ignore it, that’s your prerogative.
Yes, the GDPR is an interesting body of legislation. Not sure if anyone has actually tested it to its full extent in court for compliance by companies like Uber and Airbnb. Would be interested to know.
Mind you, it does require that the user is part of the EU, so to my knowledge it doesn’t apply to my information here in Australia.
While it wouldnt “have” to apply to Australia it often does because they already built the system. No point in not enabeling them same rules for all customers to reduce complexity, but maybe they arent that smart.
I look forward to hearing your report a year from now when Uber sends you a promotional code, or worse still, someone hacks Uber and discloses what ever information of yours wasn’t actually deleted by Uber.
In other words, I am doubtful that your account will actually ever be deleted.
I know the nothing ever gets deleted. But if it is a stale account then it has stale info of no value.
I got new cards at the end of last year so if the card is leaked it won’t work.
They’ll likely also have your age, address, phone and or email and whatever else they asked for or captured when you interacted with them.
Good luck with any of that. I have moved continents since then.
So, in moving continents you’ve changed your name, your age and your email address, which is why you didn’t receive the notification from Uber … right?
My point was and continues to be that in my opinion it’s unlikely that your data will actually be removed.
If you want to ignore it, that’s your prerogative.
And even old info can be used for identity theft. Like some security questions will ask you about an old address for example.
For some reason they make security question answers case sensitive, so I always throw in the same algorithm of uppercase/lowercase.
What is your suggestion? What action should OP take?
Afaik in the EU it would be a very easy lawsuit if that were to happen.
Yes, the GDPR is an interesting body of legislation. Not sure if anyone has actually tested it to its full extent in court for compliance by companies like Uber and Airbnb. Would be interested to know.
Mind you, it does require that the user is part of the EU, so to my knowledge it doesn’t apply to my information here in Australia.
While it wouldnt “have” to apply to Australia it often does because they already built the system. No point in not enabeling them same rules for all customers to reduce complexity, but maybe they arent that smart.