<story><title>Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company</title><url>https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Personal-gmail-account-claimed-by-SSO-can-t-login-anymore/qaq-p/1293750</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dreyfiz</author><text>GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself.&lt;p&gt;All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts.&lt;p&gt;My relationship with GitHub significantly predated my dalliance with this one employer years ago. I trusted GitHub. My GitHub account was a formative part of my identity. I still can’t believe it and I still can’t forgive them. I lost some of my sparkle that day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caseysoftware</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s ugly, I&amp;#x27;m sorry.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also why I oppose using social authentication with anything. While we have access to our [Facebook, Twitter, Github, Google, LinkedIn] account today, what happens if they shut it down? We have no clue of the real consequences &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; no appeals process. It&amp;#x27;s the worst of both worlds.</text></comment>
<story><title>Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company</title><url>https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Personal-gmail-account-claimed-by-SSO-can-t-login-anymore/qaq-p/1293750</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dreyfiz</author><text>GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself.&lt;p&gt;All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts.&lt;p&gt;My relationship with GitHub significantly predated my dalliance with this one employer years ago. I trusted GitHub. My GitHub account was a formative part of my identity. I still can’t believe it and I still can’t forgive them. I lost some of my sparkle that day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snack_man</author><text>The specter of this sort of violation hangs over the shoulder of every internet user now - the loss of an account on a service like Facebook, GitHub, or Trello could be life-altering. Our digital selves are all at risk of becoming The Trial&amp;#x27;s protagonist.&lt;p&gt;Do we have any protection besides moving to a new platform that&amp;#x27;s not big enough to betray its users yet?</text></comment>