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Yes, for privacy reasons, it’s not appropriate to keep observations on your fellow citizen...
by tajen 9y ago
Yes, for privacy reasons, it’s not appropriate to keep observations on your fellow citizen...
- powvans 9y agoDear diary, today I had a discussion on HN with tajen. Will HN support erasing your comment history if you ask?
- EwanToo 9y agoIf you're a European citizen, in a couple of months they'll legally have to (assuming they don't want to just ignore any European court judgements, which is possible but risky). I believe you can already delete your account and comments though?
- jimnotgym 9y agoPlus Hacker news doesn't ask for personally identifyable information in order to use it, unless you choose to put your full name in as a user.
- danieltillett 9y agoHN has everyone's email. With modern language usage analysis it would probably not be too difficult to work out who everyone is on HN who posts regularly. This is one of the reasons I post under my real name.
- grzm 9y agoHN only has email addresses for members who provide it. It's not a requirement for account creation.
- antaviana 9y agoSo what is the procedure going to be exactly? Will HN request the user to send over a photo of their national ID card or password to prove EU citiznship and then proceed to delete comments and data?