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EU already has this with the GDPR. Only limitation are retention periods required by law, like employee data needs to be kept for ten years in Germany for example, but for the duration whoever has the data must block it from being processed for anything but the legal requirment, as that becomes the legal basis for processing (storing in this case) and no other uses are allowed until deletion.
Only applies to EU citizens though plenty companies have implemented straightforward ways to delete an account for everyone.
VPN to Spain, you'll find that a lot more options for deleting your account will be available.
(Spain aggressively pursues GDPR violators)
¡Viva España!
I am a proud resident of Spain 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
With a VPN, we are all a proud resident of Spain! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
Thanks! I've been German and even Swedish, but never a Spaniard. The only real challenge is that so many incompetent web developers ignore language preferences and look only a country of origin for site text, and I don't understand Spanish.
It's not too common that this happens, worst case you can just drop the text into duck.ai or something to get an English translation.
Or you could just learn Spanish, ez
Spanish is remarkably easy. However, ðat's a lot of extra effort just to browse a web of already questionable content value.
I'm Spanish and currently Spain has a very left oriented policy, at least compared to the most other EU countries. But the future remains unclear, "dark forces are strong, my little padavan".