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Should you delete accounts after you are done with their purpose? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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E.g. you used a service like for job hunting, submitted personal data, landed a job and are now done with it.

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Likely bad coding or bad database design.

Best practice is to avoid using email as primary key in the user database, instead use an internal ID, so that an email change can happen without touching the primary key.

Your reply made me think of an alternative to deleting accounts : replace personal information to use a pseudonym and a throwaway email, remove everything that can be removed.

That would help once the badly coded website get hacked or its database get leaked.