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Improve BOINC Data Retention: Introduce ability to delete BOINC account #113

Closed skcin closed 4 years ago

skcin commented 6 years ago

Issue by grctest Friday Apr 14, 2017 at 13:34 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks/issues/108

Issue raised: https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/comments/6583z3/has_your_boinc_account_been_permanently/dg8ud7t/

You currently cannot delete a BOINC account without the BOINC project admin deleting your entries directly from the database (unlikely to occur unless court ordered).

This is not good if you're trying to clean up your internet presence, or if you no longer trust a BOINC project & you wish to delete your account for security reasons.

If any BOINC project was included on this site they would be given a black rating.

It should be possible for the user to request an account deletion from within their account settings, confirmed by 2FA and/or email.

skcin commented 6 years ago

Comment by grctest Sunday May 14, 2017 at 22:30 GMT

You can obfuscate your details in the meantime, changing your username, the email, random data in the profile, etc.

We could perhaps look into how the anti-spammer scripts work, and if we're able to replicate getting your account flagged as a spammer that could be an indirect route for getting your account deleted...