Addendum: On Sep. 8 I asked Condé Nast to delete my data: https://federate.social/@jik/113104350128502899
They finally got back to me today, nearly 2 months later, with this response: "Your request cannot be completed at this time. inactive subscriber"
I believe the technical term for describing this response is "bullshit."
That I am an inactive subscriber shouldn't prevent them from deleting my data. The whole reason why I asked them to is because I'm not an active subscriber so they don't need it!
#ChangeOfAddress 🧵

Addendum to my #ChangeOfAddress 🧵: I had no trouble changing my address at spirit.com (#SpiritAirlines), but afterward they started spamming me at the new address. This isn't surprising; several sites did that. What's different is that when I try to unsub from the Spirit #spam, it claims I'm already unsubscribed.
After navigating their live chat for 20+ minutes about this, they opened an escalation ticket about it. The confirmation email says it could take up to 30 days for them to respond. 😡

Mission accomplished! I've reviewed the entire contents of my password manager and anonymized my addresses wherever it was possible and appropriate.
Final statistics:
I started with 1,262 items, of which I deleted 465 (37%)!
I skipped 120 items of the wrong type, e.g., secure notes.
I skipped 292 more items with good reasons not to anonymize .
I anonymized 386 (76%) of the remaining 505. I was unable to anonymize 118 (23%) for various reasons.
#infosec #privacy
/end #ChangeOfAddress 🧵

Over at https://tripplite.eaton.com/, there's no way to edit the username / email address on your account. They've buried the "Delete account" button on the "Password" tab of the account settings pop-up for some inexplicable reason. And if you click the "Delete account" button, the message telling you that your request was submitted successfully is inserted onto a different tab of the pop-up so you don't see it unless you switch to that tab. 🤦
#ChangeOfAddress 🧵

https://transunion.com/ continues its pattern of being, like all the other credit reporting agencies, the worst. They sent me the below email after I updated my email address. One problem: it says I should call them if I didn't update my password, which I didn't, I updated my email address!
Furthermore, if you try to change your username and your password at the same time on the account settings page, it falsely claims that the old password you entered is incorrect. 🤦
#ChangeOfAddress 🧵

Trying to change my email address at https://discountfilters.com/ was a disaster, but if you read my blog you already know they're shady (https://blog.kamens.us/2024/01/11/buyer-beware-discountfilters-com/).
I tried changing my address. They claimed they were sending a verification email but it never arrived.
I then tried logging out and logging back in with the new address. They sent me an email with a link to "access your account." I clicked that link and it logged me into a NEW ACCOUNT with that address. 🤦
#ChangeOfAddress 🧵

(https://caremark.com/ idiocy continued)
So I changed my email address, and then logged out and tried to log back in again, and I _still_ need to log in with my old email address, even though it is no longer displayed anywhere in my account settings. How do you even break things this badly? 🤦
Also, after I changed my username and email address, they sent me the attached email message. *sigh*
#ChangeOfAddress 🧵

https://caremark.com/ is a doozy. My password manager said to log in using my email address as my username, which worked fine. When I went to update my email address in my profile, I saw that there was a separate username field with a random number as my username. I changed the username to something else, and logged me out and told me to log back in with my new username. Which... didn't work. I still had to log in with my email address.
(continued)
#ChangeOfAddress 🧵