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You can just over write your existing account, probably the easiest. Go to "Profile".   Beside the "Save", button is a "Cancel" button, I am not quite sure what that does, it may cancel your account?

I have been just figuring that out also. I try to be careful with information yet I spill a lot of info way too easy. It would be nice to be able to remove some or change accounts if we chose to. I can understand that it is good to have as much information as possible and there is a lot here from posts but...oh well.

Everything online is archived almost instantly, not by archive.org but by the NSA, CIA, DHS etc. Coupled with IP traffic from the telecoms, which has been duplicated and routed through the national security apparatus for about two decades, origination (thus author) is easily sourced by the government. There are a few legal issues with how the apparatus was constructed, the reason why an internet ID is being attempted again. For anyone that is interested in how individual privacy was circumvented, look into how "digital" transmission is defined. There is a huge reason the government required the switch from analog to digital, the best documentation is in federal cases. I personally believe in unfettered free speech but I do understand the concern with what we each post. Coming from the side of "why worry if you haven't done anything wrong", even the sophistication of existing A.I. can generate entire accounts, posts, images, websites, videos, etc. that would make the cost of experts to refute the false information outside the funds of almost every human (not even factoring the cost/lawsuits to access the proprietary systems to prove false origination). Do we leave the internet entirely, self-censor, or engage in the most limited transactional only capacity? Either way, we (the individual) lose. It's a very well thought out construct. Encrypted communication may be the only avenue for sensitive personal information, until it is outlawed.

"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes."

Yours in the struggle.

Yeah exactly. I signed into an account with my local email and somehow Google has an old picture of me from way back and I have no idea where it is anymore.
Absolutely nothing is private anymore. Therein lies the struggle so the information here is small compared to all each day gathered by others who seem so interested in my life of nothing,really important. Just does not feel right.

Things changing fast.

Chris just came in and was telling me the new grids above "contrails" lol- we are becoming resigned to the fact that nothing is private anymore and it seems nobody cares. We are getting older and maybe that is why it bothers us more but do feel bad for our grands. Yet our own children do not seem to care so...

It is going to be up to the people eventually if they will just accept this or not.

I AM happy this site did not pull my old Google pic- we do not even use them anymore but as you said it gets captured right away- way back- like the machine.

Have a great day!

Isn't this thread meant to discuss the solution of how to remove one's account?
I'm quite curious about the readiness of moderators, to assist in this.
I've found quite a lack of response during the last years, in them.
At least, I should address them directly, instead of posting this as a general request

Hello JTF, shouldn't this discussion about privacy in the internet of things move to its own thread? Please, read my response to linchris4. That subject about privacy gone out of the window, isn't that an obvious fact by now?
In my logic, when I would feel offended by that lack of privacy, and suffer the consequences (banning or censorship),
my choice would be to simply stop using the internet of things, and drop my mob. phone in a muddy ditch.
Let's not complain about joining a virtual network that is entirely our own choice, shall we? Nagging is a waste of time and energy, to me.
Besides, when the grid goes down, and it may go down, at least for a while, we shouldn't want to be taken by surprise, crying in a desperate attempt to hold on to an addiction that has gradually crept on us with many tentacles.
Have a life, in the reality of sunshine, rain, soil, and fresh air. The 4 elements will always rule over the 0 - 1 system.

Mary,

Reread the entire thread, I was addressing some of the concern presented. If you somehow perceived my post as a complaint or nagging, again you need to reread it. I was merely stating the facts to let anyone know, now or in the future, that everything posted online (and telephone conversations etc.) have been being archived by the national security apparatus since approximately 2002. Any concern of deleting or creating alter egos would not make any difference so we should exist without concern. 

Hello JTF, of course I do know what you're on about, but you're likely preaching to the choir, see? The topic of this thread is an immediate and practical one: how to remove an account.
You've left that thread-road, and began to address the lack of privacy online, which is an entirely different topic. Why not start your own thread with that subject, instead of responding in one where it's not relevant? I'm not addressing the content of your message, but the irrelevance of bumping it here. Be to the point making you point, I suggest.

It's simple. Those who may be considering removing their account are the ones that need to know that if it's coming from a place of concern about what they have posted then that's a non-issue. Most, if not everyone today, do not look for additional information...they usually drop into a single silo and go with whatever happens to be in it. Strict adherence to only what is deemed specific topic based content is what perpetuates (or reinforces) the silo mind frame. It's ok when a little of this or that bleed into a topic, that's how interest is peaked or we learn something we otherwise wouldn't have known about.