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You don't control the data either way. Federation and deletion are in conflict. Even if you deleted the account, there is no guarantee it would be deleted from other servers that the data was copied to. (And to be clear, Lemmy has exactly the same issue.)
GDPR and CCPA lawyers when reading this comment.
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I mean, you can't unsend an email either.
True, but I'll bet money someone will file some frivolous lawsuits at some point.
The key word there bring frivolous, and like 99% of frivolous lawsuits get tossed out rapidly and/or result in a ton of wasted money by the filer. Slapp only really work when you have a lot of money already to justify it.
Against who?
Gdpr is not that easy, and the right to be forgotten is certainly more complicated than people are making it out to be. Public facing forum posts have even less protection, for fairly obvious reasons. Now if Lemmy instances were sharing your account information and not deleting that, it gets murkier.
Lemmy should probably keep gdpr and ccpa in mind but public facing forum comments are early qualified under the right to be forgotten unless they meet certain criteria.
Do these regulations even apply in this case? Lemmy is non-commercial and it’s a distributed. Who would the regulators even go after?
The other point is, how do you know which instances to go after to delete any content anyways? I think there is a way to see a list of federated servers, but there’s no way to know which has your data.
In theory you could send a takedown request to each of them, but that doesn’t seem helpful
Not quite, stackoverflow doesn't delete your content if you file a GDPR request. Not all data is personal data.