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This site - hackernews - will not delete your account - full stop. I sent in a request asking what steps were necessary to have one's account deleted. I was to
by throwawaydelete 9y ago
This site - hackernews - will not delete your account - full stop.
I sent in a request asking what steps were necessary to have one's account deleted. I was told this was not possible. This is unreasonable.
And yes, I created this account specifically to post this comment.
- regularhackerer 9y agoCould GDPR change this?
- fredrikaurdal 9y agoFor EU users yes, but for other people kind of, when using EU based services.
- gnode 9y agoDoes the GDPR actually express a right to account deletion? My understanding is that it expresses only a right to erasure in a limited set of circumstances. Given that comments are public, I think it may be possible to deny the right to erasure on the archival exception. However, upvotes are currently private, and cannot be removed after some length of time. I wonder if this would mean they should be made removable (or at least the record of them in a user's account).