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Skybird · 09-18-13, 10:07 AM

Having gotten the email confirmation by Paypal for the transaction over my "new" account, I just realized that although i signed a new account, they seem to have not formed a new one, but linked the form's data to the old one, and reactivated it.

I note that due to a spelling mistake in my data, which was present in the old one, and now is back in the "new" one.

Point is: back then I erased my banking data from the old pp-account, then send them an email that they should shut down the whole account and delete it, instead of it just hibernating until reactivation.

And they sent a confirmation they would do.

And now this...?

Just confirms my deep mistrust I have for banks in general, and online payment things in general. You are not master of your own data, you cannot unlist from such services if you want that, and once the genie is out of the bottle, you never get it back into it. Even worse is when your stuff is on foreign servers. You have nothing but their smiling faces to believe in. What really is being done with all that stuff, you have absolutely no clue of.

I have sent them an email with a request for them explaining themselves.

Reminds me of the fingertip scanner in the new iPhone. German authorities are warning against using that function, and the reason has far greater validity: biometric characteristics that can be used for ID-ing you, stick with you for all your life. If you store them carelessly in many foreign places over which you have no control whatever, and use them inflationary, this can badly backfire against you if somebody gets his hands onto them and abuses them criminally. Apple says the fingertip gets stored on the device and the data cannot be accessed. How stupid do they think people are? It will get hacked, of course, and of course criminal energy can get such data out of your handy. And this time you cannot heal the problem by just logging a new email adress or changing all your PINs and codewords.

I do not trust these things. My deep distrust for these digital things is already encoded within my genes. I do not like this new world forming up. And I do not think it is friendly. Being controlled and monitored and personally recorded, is not friendly, but a hostile act meant to control, expose and lock you, defenselessly.

09-18-13, 10:07 AM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,719 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Having gotten the email confirmation by Paypal for the transaction over my "new" account, I just realized that although i signed a new account, they seem to have not formed a new one, but linked the form's data to the old one, and reactivated it. I note that due to a spelling mistake in my data, which was present in the old one, and now is back in the "new" one. Point is: back then I erased my banking data from the old pp-account, then send them an email that they should shut down the whole account and delete it, instead of it just hibernating until reactivation. And they sent a confirmation they would do. And now this...? Just confirms my deep mistrust I have for banks in general, and online payment things in general. You are not master of your own data, you cannot unlist from such services if you want that, and once the genie is out of the bottle, you never get it back into it. Even worse is when your stuff is on foreign servers. You have nothing but their smiling faces to believe in. What really is being done with all that stuff, you have absolutely no clue of. I have sent them an email with a request for them explaining themselves. Reminds me of the fingertip scanner in the new iPhone. German authorities are warning against using that function, and the reason has far greater validity: biometric characteristics that can be used for ID-ing you, stick with you for all your life. If you store them carelessly in many foreign places over which you have no control whatever, and use them inflationary, this can badly backfire against you if somebody gets his hands onto them and abuses them criminally. Apple says the fingertip gets stored on the device and the data cannot be accessed. How stupid do they think people are? It will get hacked, of course, and of course criminal energy can get such data out of your handy. And this time you cannot heal the problem by just logging a new email adress or changing all your PINs and codewords. I do not trust these things. My deep distrust for these digital things is already encoded within my genes. I do not like this new world forming up. And I do not think it is friendly. Being controlled and monitored and personally recorded, is not friendly, but a hostile act meant to control, expose and lock you, defenselessly. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.