Comment on Discussion Thread đ Monday 20 July 2026
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨1⊠â¨week⊠ago
I got a message from a periodontal clinic subject to a recent data breach, urging me to not click any links that might be sent to me and to rest assured that my details are secure now (thankyou so much for shutting the gate after the horse has bolted!) The last time I had any connection with them at all was when I first got pregnant with Miniest, maybe 13 years agoâ˝ I havenât had any contact or use of their services since. Why had they kept my details for so long when I was no longer actually a customer of theirs? I feel like there should be a time limit for keeping information about people that arenât customers anymore.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨1⊠â¨week⊠ago
Some places delete things, and youâd think being medically related they should have a data retention policy.
The two reasons are theyâre a 'never delete anythingâs type of place that wants to hold onto everthing âjust in caseâ. The most organised version of this is they can still use your data to build a profile of their future ideal customer, even if youâre not opted in.
The other option, and maybe more likely since they had a breach, is theyâre so disorganised with their customer data they donât know what to do with it.
Especially given theyâre âdirect to consumerâ instead of âbusiness to businessâ, even in the medical field. Thatâs why Ashley Maddison had that massive breach years ago. Even though they were a dating website specifically for affairs, they werenât obligated to have good security because they dealt with individualâs data instead of other businesses