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Use Kbin at your own risk. Can’t delete account. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Jezebelley@lemmy.world to c/technology@beehaw.org
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I signed up kbin.social but have since decided to go all in on Lemmy. I’ve tried all day to delete my account on kbin but it won’t let me. Once I click the delete confirmation pop up it simply reloads the feed and keeps your account.

Be warned. Currently you have no control over your data there. I think that settles it for me. I won’t be using that service again.

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[–] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

GDPR and CCPA lawyers when reading this comment.

https://tenor.com/view/waterboy-rubbing-nipples-gif-11600510

[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, you can't unsend an email either.

[–] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True, but I'll bet money someone will file some frivolous lawsuits at some point.

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The key word there bring frivolous, and like 99% of frivolous lawsuits get tossed out rapidly and/or result in a ton of wasted money by the filer. Slapp only really work when you have a lot of money already to justify it.

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Against who?

[–] ShadowAether@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Not quite, stackoverflow doesn't delete your content if you file a GDPR request. Not all data is personal data.

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Gdpr is not that easy, and the right to be forgotten is certainly more complicated than people are making it out to be. Public facing forum posts have even less protection, for fairly obvious reasons. Now if Lemmy instances were sharing your account information and not deleting that, it gets murkier.

Lemmy should probably keep gdpr and ccpa in mind but public facing forum comments are early qualified under the right to be forgotten unless they meet certain criteria.

[–] datagoat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do these regulations even apply in this case? Lemmy is non-commercial and it’s a distributed. Who would the regulators even go after?

[–] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 3 points 1 year ago

The other point is, how do you know which instances to go after to delete any content anyways? I think there is a way to see a list of federated servers, but there’s no way to know which has your data.

In theory you could send a takedown request to each of them, but that doesn’t seem helpful