- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.
Lemmy devs being man children when confronted with GDPR compliance.
And if Lemmy if supposed to better Reddit in basic fucking decency then GDPR is absolutely crucial.
how are you supposed to do gdpr compliance on a federated system though?
You are responsible for data collected by your own instance. If a deletion request comes through, you are responsible for deleting it from your account, and forwarding the deletion request and responses to other instance you federate with. You are in the clear as long as you don’t keep data you legally can’t, and have sufficiently informed other instances of your obligations.