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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 11 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] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The EU doesn't have global jurisdiction, if an instance developer or admin has no EU presence then they could just ignore them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sure, but EU data protection laws may require EU based Lemmy instances to block instances that dont honour deletion requests.

This is why mastodon was built GDPR compliant by design.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sure. Lemmy does have such a presence though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"Lemmy" is a piece of software. A piece of software can't violate the GDPR, it's just a blob of data. You need to be running a server to do something that would break the GDPR. Those server-running admins are the ones that need to be concerned about their EU presence.

Maybe some of the people developing Lemmy are in that category and might get in trouble, but it will be because they're running servers not because they're developing Lemmy. If they get arrested or whatever it has no effect on Lemmy-the-software.