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The problem is the EU approach to GDPR enforcement. Fines are so huge that probably MS lawyer team decided not to take chances for something that does not bring
by piokoch 8y ago
The problem is the EU approach to GDPR enforcement. Fines are so huge that probably MS lawyer team decided not to take chances for something that does not bring revenue - some developers might cry on Twitter or Facebook for a week or two, but that would cost MS nothing.
Unfortunately "right to be forgotten" has been wrongly defined in GDPR, if someone published something in a publicly available place, this shouldn't be removable on demand. I am perfectly for forcing companies to be obliged to delete its customers data if customer does not want make business with a said company or does not want to allow company to use the data for its business (like advertising), but this should not cover every random forum in the Internet.
In fact this is the reason those independent forum will disappear soon or later and be moved to Facebook, which is rather sad and shows only how EU bureaucracy is inefficient - they wanted to restrict Facebook usage of private data, instead they only caused even more people to move to Facebook and give up their privacy.