firipu

joined 1 year ago
[–] firipu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Governments also have to comply with GDPR. They also have no commercial interest in the personal data.

[–] firipu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that sounds like the most correct take. I don't think the EU will be happy with that if ActivityPub really blows up. e.g. if Threads joins the federation (and we don't defederate from their data leeching service), that would become really really complex :)

[–] firipu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That sounds like a good take. I have no idea if it's correct, but it sounds reasonable.

So I'd have to contact every single instance to get rid of my data, which sounds reasonable, but is practically speaking absolutely impossible.

Lemmy just sounds like a GDPR nightmare for the EU tbh.

[–] firipu@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not as if the GDPR cares about that specifically. Whatever excuse or justification you might have, the law still applies... Mail servers also have to comply with the law.

[–] firipu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No idea. That's why I am asking.

I just feel that if Lemmy keeps growing, the EU will eventually take notice and consider implementing requirements/measures/regulations...

But I guess it's not just lemmy, but also any other fediverse (or any other decentralized) service. Just curious

[–] firipu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure if this is the right community to ask? It's not really a technical support question, just a general lemmy question.

 

So if I understand GDPR correctly: If I want a service/business to remove all my personal data, they have to comply with it in a certain timespan or get in trouble with the law.

If I understand federation correctly: All posts get replicated on federated instances all over the fediverse.

My question: If I e.g. want lemmy.world to remove my data, all my posts etc are still up on lemmy.ml right? As they just have a copy of these posts?

Would I as a customer have to contact every single instance to get my data removed? Or how does GDPR compliance work with lemmy?

Or am I completely misunderstanding how GDPR works?

[–] firipu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I still use it. It still works well enough for me that it's mostly fire and forget.

[–] firipu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm curious how many signups you already got. Your app will skyrocket to the top in seconds once released.

[–] firipu@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A good night's sleep.

[–] firipu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it a sex thing? Please don't let it be a sex thing.