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You can't nuke your account. You can close it but your comments remain on the site. They'll delete your account and assign your comments and posts to a random u
by shevekofurras 2y ago
You can't nuke your account. You can close it but your comments remain on the site. They'll delete your account and assign your comments and posts to a random username.
Yes this violates any EU citizen's right to be forgotten under GDPR. Welcome to silicon valley.
- whamlastxmas 2y agoDoes every comment previously attached to your account have a unique username or do they still all share the same? Sort of moot point considering the multiple HN archives that would still have the original username attached
- shevekofurras 2y agoThe username is changed but the comments remain attached to a single different name.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoHow would one report this to the EU and force HN to follow the GDPR?
- kyboren 2y agoAFAIK Y Combinator does no business in the EU and HN is hosted in a US data center. Under which legal theory does EU law apply here?
- johnnyanmac 2y agoNo business? It's purely an American company? I could be hallucinating, but I swore job boards also had peopel hire from the EU.
- godelski 2y ago> You can't nuke your account. You can close it but your comments remain on the site. Which is why I'd write an open letter and not do the thing. If I could nuke my account I wouldn't need to ask Dang, and I would have already done it.