how do i delete my account
Anonymous
7 Jul 2005 14:41:06 UTC
Topic 13022
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You can tell to "hide" your computer information to the public in your preferences. It would then also not show up on external stat sites.
There is no way to delete your account (immediately) because there are quite some references in the database e.g. in the results to it. Simply deleting it would lead to database inconsistencies.
I will investigate if and how this is possible manually, but I will at least have to wait until all your results have been (automatically) purged from the active database, which is some weeks I think.
BM
how do i delete my account
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Looks like being somewhat dangerous (for the database) to manually delete something such as an account.
Honestly - why did you sign up then? You have accepted the "Rules and policies" (available from the fromt page with "read this first!" in bold remark) by doing so, and thus given Einstein@Home the permission to collect and store the information described there for the purposes named there, so I doubt that there is a legal claim on deleting the information you freely transmitted and gave us permission to store.
I'll do what I can to follow your request - but not more.
BM
BM
1. It might be a design flaw
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1. It might be a design flaw that actually deleting an account isn't possible (yet), but this then is a flaw of the BOINC software we're using, and thus applies to all the BOINC projects.
2. The information bound to the account is minimal (email address) and need not be valid beyond a certain point. You can set up an account with an address that is only valid for one single email, and no need to include your true name anywhere.
3. The information stored about the computers is only used for the purpose of distributing the workunits, and maybe the OS information used for error tracking. The name and IP address of your machines is only visible to you, and if you choose in the profile to hide your computers, no one else will be able to connect the computer id with your account.
4. No user information beyond what you decide to show to the public e.g. in the forums will leave our labs, not for money and not for anything else.
Again, I'll see what I can do, but I won't risk to break the whole database for that.
BM
BM