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Have you contacted the owners of the website to get your data removed?
by uxp8u61q 3y ago
Have you contacted the owners of the website to get your data removed?
- saagarjha 3y agoAnd give them more personal information?
- rendall 3y agoI assumed OP was the website owner. But while my request is serious and legally binding, it was somewhat rhetorical as I do not expect the owners of a site with such a data policy would really be conscientious about contacting me to sort out which data is mine and removing it.
- eru 3y ago> But while my request is serious and legally binding, [...] Posting a comment on HN is somehow legally binding for a third party website whose operator likely never even heard of HN? Or what are you trying to say?
- rendall 3y agoAs I understand it, the request to have data removed is what's legally binding, not the format in which the user makes the request. If the site owners see it or otherwise become aware of it, they are obligated to remove my data even though it was a post on HN. Whether all of that actually happens is a different story. They could probably claim truthfully they don't know which data is mine. If I were determined, I'd contact them directly.
- uxp8u61q 3y agoDon't be absurd. I'm a big proponent of GDPR but you seem to be under the impression that it's a magic spell. You seriously believe that, legally, if you post a comment on HN, you're putting an obligation on someone? I have a piece of the moon to sell you, then!
- rendall 3y agoThat is a misapprehension of what I wrote.
- rendall 3y agoAlso, I threw that in there because, if the site operators were to see "I don't expect them to actually remove my data", I do not want them to interpret that as releasing them from the obligation. It does not. It's just my prediction of how things will go.