THE VERGE – Apr 23 – A Match Group spokesperson confirmed that a "limited number" of old accounts had been accidentally reactivated recently and that any account affected received a password reset. Match.com's current privacy statement says that the company can "retain certain information associated with user account" even after they close it. The company plans to roll out a new privacy policy in order to comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); under the new policy, all those years-old accounts will be deleted. Although there is no federal data destruction law in the US, 32 states have data disposal laws that require "entities to destroy, dispose, or otherwise make personal information unreadable or undecipherable."
by Lizzie Plaugic
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