Deleting Personal Data from Private Institutions?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday January 20, 2007 @05:45AM from the static-on-your-digital-paper-trail dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "This site has many readers who are familiar with the liabilities of personal data being stored on servers owned by private institutions. Bank records, phone records, credit records, flight records, basically any type of digital transaction can be (and likely are) stored indefinitely for whatever reason. Are there processes by which one can request a removal of personal data, or by signing contracts with these companies, do they own the rights to the information? If you have attempted such an erasure, have you encountered resistance?"

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Re:Amazon.com won't... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-20 09:40 · Score: -1, Troll

If I was going to create a marketing list for whatever reason [uhm, is the reason "marketing"], I might use the old data [that the user attempted to delete], but who knows what other people do with stuff like this.
So you might deserve to be thrown in prison, have your teeth knocked out, and be forced to perform fellatio 24x7?