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Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title says it. Apparently lemmy devs are not concerned with such worldly matters as privacy, or respecting international privacy laws.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But I think in terms of federated content, you cannot be expected to do more than send information about the deletion out. If other instances don't respect it, it's not the originating instance's job to police it.

It actually is.

When delegating the processing of PII to someone else (like another instance), you're supposed to initiate a data processing agreement with them: https://gdpr.eu/what-is-data-processing-agreement/

Unless Mastodon has somehow automated this process in inter-instance communication, they are just as liable as Lemmy is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

But pii isn't being sent. A user's nickname and the domain of their instance plus any content they create is. If they choose to put their pii in public posts or user info, that's their choice but is not pii solicited in order to operate the service, it was volunteered.

It's a crucial difference. I considered this when writing the terms and data retention information for my own instance. Federation is very frugal about the information shared.