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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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should i delete my lemmy instance (lemmy.tazy.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I dont really use it much tbf just thought it was a cool project but I've just read about how lemmy instances can be fined for not complying with GDPR Read more

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As long as they process data of European citizens it’s applicable. See all gdpr fines imposed…. Now the execution / collection would be a bitch but I could imagine à order to stop processing the data imposed to European instances…

I mean pretty crazy things can happen. See the various adequacy decisions / appeals by Mr Schrems; I cannot give guidance with a life expectancy of more than 1 year given the instability of the application of the regulation.

Not that I’m complaining ; it feeds me :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

“Now the execution / collection would be a bitch”. That’s my point. It’s basically unenforceable as they would have to go after every federated instance on the internet, including knowing every single person that spun up their own instance, so basically this law would be pointless. It’s better leveraged against companies, not small individual entities, so good luck utilizing it.