What assurances do we have that you actually remove our information and discontinue use or sale of said info?
First off, you can’t even maintain your own information correctly.
This page: (http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/peoplesearch/details.html) is no longer valid.
Other than being a dead page in general because the service is not functional anymore in the manner in which it describes, it points to dead links: The section titled “Practices Regarding Your Ability to Update or Delete Information”, first paragraph, the links titled “Edit/Create” and “Telephone Removal Form”.
This describes to me an ability to delete SOME information (the above referenced “Edit/Create” and “Telephone Removal Form” pages), but not other information completely related to the first set of info (the page I am currently complaining about).
Second off, you have chosen to partner with Intelius. This is like signing myself up for spam and marketing calls. Sure, the internet is a great research tool and a person’s personal information such as location and phone number can be found as easily as crossing the street, but I do not believe Yahoo should sell out its customers and patrons so easily as that.
Intelius should have the right to do their own business, Yahoo should not help them by giving its users info to them (even if the ‘choice’ to opt-out is available, albeit, hidden).
The facts that 1) Yahoo has this partnership and 2) Cannot remove its own defunct web pages in efficiency leaves me to wonder about my own data security.
* Additional info on Yahoo’s stupidity *
I tried posting this question in the help forum, but Yahoo failed, as usual, there. The system could not locate an appropriate forum for me to post in. I was recommended to email Yahoo Customer Care. After filling in the form completely, the bottom of the page asks me to verify my security questions.
I could easily have done this through account info, I’m sure, but the page suggested that I go through the login as if I had lost my password. Of course, since I was already logged in, this triggered a possible Fraud Alert. Yahoo locked my secret questions for 24 hours and would not allow me access to them so that I could finish the form.
And you wonder why I’m concerned about what would happen AFTER I delete my account when I no longer have access to the information myself. Or even why I’m deleting the account in the first place.