I thought GDPR required deletion upon user request.
You may have noticed that the article you linked listed the anonymize user option I mentioned:
Alternatively, a less disruptive solution is the āAnonymize Userā button which leaves the posts but changes the username and everything else about the user so they are no longer identifiableā¦ [rest of instructions omitted for brevity of quote]
Discourse prevents deleting a user without deleting all of their posts, and it prevents deleting all posts for any user with more than a few posts, or posts older than a certain age.
The settings can be changed for that, but they havenāt been.
In any event, this is why Support needs to be contacted.
We canāt address this.
I do not know any lawyers barred up in the European Union.
Would be interesting if you can deny the delete request outright.
Or if you can only offer
the anonymize user option and must still delete if the user does not choose the anonymize user option.
I know the delete option was originally implemented before the GDPR to deal with spam accounts.
So you could not argue in court that deleting would require additional programming.
I, too, am surprised actual deletion is not an option
Iām more surprised that itād be an issue. If I dumped my girlfriend and told her to lose my number and never contact me again I wouldnāt continue to call her and show up at her doorstep to see if sheād deleted my contact info yet, but here this guy is calling SG back to ask āI havenāt heard from you since the breakup, have you deleted my number yet?ā
You forgot the part where he asks for all of the money that he spent on dates.
Thanks for that @Benn, members of my alliance were asking an I was on the road. Helped out big time!
And loudly complains about her to all of the guys currently banging her, not at all taking the hint and just excusing himself from the room
It has certain implications in a world where data is mined and your emails given to direct advertising lists. Presumably there are those who want to start off on a clean slate and therefore request deletionā¦ if itās not too late that isā¦
Deleting Facebook account is a good comparison, itās not like we have the power to check but if you delete the account one would hope your details are deleted too since you requested it and they gave you the option
Except you can edit and remove your email address and other info at your own leisureā¦
Thatās prospectively, how about retrospectively?
Shouldnāt someone be able to loom over their shoulders to make sure companies are accountable?
Not sure how if one were actually so conspiratorial-minded that they thought the company would be tracking and maintaining that data for nefarious purpose despite their own removal of the data, they would sleep any sounder with assurances from that same company that theyāll dispense of that dataā¦
Try deleting your FB account, it will still be able to be foundā¦FOREVER. Not to mention their facial recognition program is shared with many government agencies. Did you know you also agree to let them access your camera, search history, microphoneā¦it goes on, when you 1st open an account?
Try searching āFurriesā then go on FB and see what is suggested for you!!
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Seriously NEVER, EVER do that. Friend of mine thought it would be funnyā¦it wasnāt, heās also no longer a friend with air in all 4 of his car tires.
If thatās the case, maybe they just want the account removed so none of our mods can ping his IP address and find that he is posting his hometown and namesakeā¦[spoiler]https://bit.ly/2rALE16[/spoiler]
Itās true to an extent that you should just not use anything if you donāt trust it. Unfortunately that would mean you being a tech hermit.
I suppose itās unavoidable that your data will be used in some shape or form
The question is shouldnāt we have the power to change our minds or have a greater say about what happens to our data
Obviously not a simple one to answer and applies to many cos
And yes @PapaHeavy being heavily involved in FB advertising this year Iām beginning to realise that weāve made pacts with āthe enemyā lol
Not the point I was making, but sure
Wasnāt the point you were making that if someone is so cynical about companies they shouldnāt bother asking for deletion of their data because they canāt trust said company to do so?
Therefore if one is so cynical about these things it stands to reason that the safest approach is to not use anything at all?
I never questioned his right to have his data be private, only the line of thinking that would lead to the conclusion that āthey cannot be trusted not to store my data on some clandestine database for nefarious purpose if I remove my data personally for the sake of privacy, but if I ASK them to remove it really nicely certainly they seem like a trustworthy lotā¦ā
Well fair call, it takes a bit more than table manners to keep these big cos in check thatās for sure, assuming they did anything wrong in the first place