Lane von Herzen: Lane MacWilliams' Data Deletion Requests

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Lane MacWilliams' Data Deletion Requests

Recent data deletion requests have been submitted by Lane MacWilliams to:

Comcast/Xfinity regarding Lane MacWilliams' account affiliated with 40 Gansett Rd. Woods Hole, MA 02543.

ARS/Rescue Rooter Heating Cooling and Plumbing

Previous data deletion requests were submitted by Lane MacWilliams to:

PG&E

Wells Fargo Bank

Chase Bank

Bank of America

Citibank

A statement retaining privacy rights was submitted by Lane MacWilliams via email to:

Fisher Investments (December 21, 2022)

Please note that Eversource, an energy company on Cape Cod, acknowledges collecting, storing and disseminating customer information according to governmental and "quasi-governmental" directives, but this company makes no apparent allowance for the deletion of personal data from its auspices.