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does not have an unsubscribe functionality that erases all your posts (right to be forgotten) EU/non-EU citizen here. This is a well meaning regulation. Howeve
by contingencies 4y ago
does not have an unsubscribe functionality that erases all your posts (right to be forgotten)
EU/non-EU citizen here. This is a well meaning regulation. However, it is difficult to implement technically. How do you structure a conversation where a critical participant has said they want to be forgotten. Is it enough - practically, ethically/morally, legally - to change the byline on their posts? What if there was additional identifying information? Can you hack the conversation to pieces without destroying the experience for others? What about historical reference?
As a citizen in any society, in general, I believe that people should stand by their behavior and its consequences. That's what being an adult is. It's also positive to have spaces without or with reduced surveillance, but retroactively removing public discussion is quite another thing. If we muffle that, what do we have left? Certainly not a strong basis for public thought, historical inquiry, or truth.
We've also learned that any legal loophole is abused by PR companies for rich people/companies with expensive lawyers. I fear that adding this sort of thing outside the EU would quickly lead to systemic abuse.
- winternett 4y agoBrowsers now are so verbose we really don't even need cookies any more... Google knows everything via Chrome (which is based on log-ins tied to email and ID accounts, and likely shares that data with many other companies if they pay... I'm in the US, and any time I come across a cookie banner it's more annoying than anything else, because regardless of what I click, I know that tracking is occurring somehow, but at least on non EU sites I have one less annoying pop-up. We pay a lot undercover for that limited free email account that it's too late to get rid of... :(