It’s really frustrating to see large influential companies continue to perpetuate misinformation about GDPR – legislation for the benefit of ordinary users. It’

It’s really frustrating to see large influential companies continue to perpetuate misinformation about GDPR – legislation for the benefit of ordinary users. It’s doubly frustrating to see Hacker News users fall for it (other posters arguing that GDPR is not a valid reason for removing comments have been heavily downvoted). As an influential group themselves, Hacker News users continue to perpetuate these misunderstandings. There’s no provision in GDPR stating that users have the right to retract or amend content they have published. The GDPR is only concerned with personal data so comments should only be amended/removed if they contain information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person – which could be the comment author themselves or an entirely different other person. https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1554/determining-what-is-personal-data.pdf https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1554/de...