Solar wrote:
Forum posts are not "personal data", which is what that "right to erasure" refers to. Having your profile wiped (to e.g. "user1234") so no-one can link your posts to your person is one thing. Deleting all your contributions retroactively from the forum is destructive.
According to the European Commission "personal data is any information relating to an individual, whether it relates to his or her private, professional or public life. It can be anything from a name, a home address, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer’s IP address."
The data controller is the one who is responsible.
You can get fined around 10-20 million euros. Do we want to risk this because of the severity of personal data on this forum?
no92 wrote:
None of the moderators (including me) are able to delete accounts. What we can do is permanently ban an account (preventing you from logging in), but if that's what you really want then it's easy for you to simply not log in. Note: You are also able to change your password and/or email address to "random gibberish" if you want to make sure you can't change your mind and log back in at a later time.
The other thing we could do is delete all your previous posts manually. In general this would turn every conversation you've been involved in into a butchered mess (e.g. people replying to things that are no longer present, etc); and for this reason moderators won't do it.
Long story short, only chase can delete accounts (good luck with that one).
Also, osdev.org is based in the US (?). Dunno whether EU laws apply thereThe US could have even stricter laws with data protection.