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They allow only California residents to delete their personal information, and they may require proof of residency to initiate a deletion. I am disappointed.
by smnrchrds 6y ago
They allow only California residents to delete their personal information, and they may require proof of residency to initiate a deletion. I am disappointed.
- dang 6y agoI don't speak legalese, but I can tell you what the actual practice is. For YC data (e.g. applications to YC, participation in Startup School, Work at a Startup, and so on), we delete people's data when they ask us to. For HN data, it's more complicated—we try not to delete posts that got replies, because that's unfair to the commenters who replied, and so on. But we have a lot of tricks to help people in more precise ways than wholesale deletion, and we help people with such requests every day. This is in HN's FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. There's more explanation at these links from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26962860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26962860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26959559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26959559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26959675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26959675