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> ... any account you open, you should be able to close and have all relevant information erased, unless there is some special requirement otherwise. > This is
by wav-part 10y ago
> ... any account you open, you should be able to close and have all relevant information erased, unless there is some special requirement otherwise.
> This is law in some places and it's not entirely unreasonable.
Its absolutely unreasonable (eg) for HN. And this is just one form of information processing.
- edblarney 10y agoI don't agree at all. It's neither unreasonable nor entirely impractical from a mechanical perspective once it's thought through a little bit. Because comments are made here effectively anonymously, I don't see the issue, but it's not at all unreasonable that comments could be removed given a mandate.
- wav-part 10y agoGiving every HN user power to delete all his comments will make HN unreadable. To understand a comment, access to all ancestor comments is needed.
- therealidiot 10y agoI don't know, I often encounter [flagged] or whatever it is that happens to bad comments in the middle of a thread. It leaves me wondering what was actually said. So it happens already, just for different reasons...
- DanBC 10y agoYou can turn on [showdead] in your profile to see flagged comments.
- therealidiot 10y agoAh, I hadn't realised that!
- TuringTest 10y agoThere shouldn't be a need to delete one's comments to achieve a right to be forgotten, only to remove the identifier of the user who made them.
- edblarney 10y ago"Giving every HN user power to delete all his comments will make HN unreadable." No, I think it would be so rare it would not make a difference. For that 'small intrusion' on your HN experience, you get a hefty dose of privacy and security protection. I would gladly agree if HN allowed people to 'delete all comments'.
- literallycancer 10y agoRegardless, it's the way things are done in at least one country[1]. This only covers "personally identifiable information" though. Especially this paragraph is noteworthy: >(8) Disagreement with processing pursuant to paragraph 6(c) must be expressed by the data subject in writing. The controller shall be obliged to notify each controller to whom he has transferred the name, surname and address of the data subject of the fact that the data subject has expressed disagreement with the processing. What this means, is that if telemarketers call you, you just say that you require them to erase your data, and notify everyone they gave the data to erase it too. And you never hear from any telemarketers again. (At least in my experience, it says the disagreement has to be in writing, but they probably err on the side of caution.) 1 - https://www.uoou.cz/en/vismo/zobraz_dok.asp?id_ktg=1107 https://www.uoou.cz/en/vismo/zobraz_dok.asp?id_ktg=1107