Most of mine were out of date too. It keeps details of past orders for years, so old purchases are reflected in their description of you. I still deleted everything I could.
The less anyone on the internet knows about me the better.
Old Frill I turn off browsing history and targeted ads whenever I get the opportunity.
Lovetopaint037 I also delete cookies on most sites and refuse to accept letting sites set them.
Petra I avoid apps, as I do know why companies are so keen for us to sign up to them. I don't think it makes any difference whether you send orders from the app or from your browser. Either way the orders are recorded on your account, as that is how you can refer back to them and check up on deliveries, returns and so on.
I have used the internet ever since it started. It has some very useful aspects, like a combination of every university, library, museum, dictionary, phone service and enquiry desk in the world, and more, but it is also very similar to living with your front and back doors permanently open, your cupboards, filing cabinets and desk drawers unlocked, your address books and diaries lying open on the desk, and your phone line tapped.
If I can remove information about me, I do. I've read plenty of science fiction set in a future where every action, every purchase or income, every meeting, every word, every thought, is intercepted and analysed for Government records, and people whose faces don't fit can be cancelled and find that they can't vote, access their finances, buy or sell anything, rent a home, or use a phone.
Well, it used to be fiction. Increasingly, that kind of society is creeping nearer.
