How can I delete my account on a Solid POD provider?

Self Host a Solid Pod
1

TL;DR: Send an email to security@inrupt.com from the email associated with the account you want removed. Please note which POD provider you want us to remove the account from solid.community and/or inrupt.net).

As we’re rapidly working to emerge from prototype status, there are a number of regular use capabilities that we’re just beginning to incorporate into the system. The ability for a user to delete their own account is one of those things. This is a work in progress, and it will soon be merged into a new release that will enable it. Until that is in place, you can send an email to security@inrupt.com from the email that you created the account with.

Please note which servers you want to delete the account from (solid.community and/or inrupt.net). If your POD is hosted on another POD provider we will not be able to assist.

3 Likes
2

A followup on this: New accounts will now have a link to the API where you can delete your account (given that you registered with an email).

If your account is older than the release that contained these changes, there are some URLs you can check out:

1 Like
3

Has this ever been resolved?
I am trying to figure out how to delete a user account on my self hosted community server running the mashlib recipe. There seems to be a menu item fro deleting the profile under “preferences” but it is not active.

SOLID
SOLID1163×661 32.7 KB

4

No, I don’t think it has been implemented by anyone, and the spec doesn’t mandate that pods or WebID’s can or must be able to be deleted by the user.

I’d suggest opening an issue on the solid spec, to say it MUST BE possible, citing GDPR.

4 Likes