No Recycling Username: The privacy of the user must be protected all the time! Forever!
I think that it's very important that a username can't be recycled after some time that is not used.
For example:
- outlook after 1 year recycle and reassingn the username
- yahoo after 6 month recycle username and reassign it to a new user
I think that is very important protect the privacy of the people, and recycling username is a risky practice.
Yahoo in past has created a privacy concerns for the practice of recycling username of email address that are not used.
Read this and you will understand:
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/20/tech/web/yahoo-recycled-email/
http://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-recycled-id-users-warn-of-security-risk/
https://spideroak.com/privacypost/online-privacy/recycled-yahoo-ids-should-you-claim-it/
The only one that don't recycle username is Google with Gmail... but damn... Gmail is terrible for privacy of email!
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T commented
Protonmail is out of consideration as long as this is not fixed. Do not ever recycle usernames!
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Anonymous commented
Read this, it explain what are the risk of recycle username:
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Anonymous commented
Yes this is a very important idea!
In past I have received on a new mail account (Outlook) some notification of Facebook of person that is.... dead... and this is a very sad.
I have received some email from Amazon and other online store from this people... and after that I have discovered that is dead in an incident... i understand what is the risk to see an email recycled.
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Anonymous commented
I once accidentally hacked someone's Facebook because I had unknowingly obtained a recycled email address. I could only assume more worse damage could be done by this.