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Comment by LarsDu88 | Hacker News Reader

Damn, on Friday, the California DoJ Attorney General issued a warning to consumers about their data: https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...

This should've been a giveaway that the company was imminently going to go under.

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The SEC filings were a giveaway

> The California-based company has publicly reported that it is in financial distress and stated in securities filings that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.

Given such a late warning, is there any staff left to do the data deletion requests before it heads off into bankruptcy courts

Looks like the company expects to remain operational during the bankruptcy/restructuring, so I would say yes.

Either way, for the company customers under this circumstance I'd absolutely recommend sending all possible means of requesting data deletion, at least there should be a paper trail that such thing was requested.

Just requested my data deletion. Seems like it worked.

Does a deletion request delete your data, or unlink it from you? Because they use shadow profiles.

I always think of such mandates and laws assumes good faith from the company it is targeting which then leads to "trust me bro" vibes.

Gov sites issueing warnings about citizen data security seems a bit funny these days.

Elon: "Comedy!"

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