Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem
Badeendje@lemmy.world 8 months agoSuch an ignorant stance. Privacy is an individuals RIGHT. It should have been the defacto stance for everything.
You allowed the corporate fuckery to cloud your thinking it is too much to ask for. It isn’t. And GDPR compliance is usually straightforward.
- is the data required to do what you and the user agree, then be explicit on why and store it. (So the content of a post is required, anything else is not).
- Do not use data for purposes not explicitly agreed to with the user and remove any data no longer nessecary.
- certain data can NEVER be stored unless legally required to do so.
If the blog platform in your example had an option to “delete my account” and it would then completely scrubbed this would be plenty compliant probably. As would the option for people to comment without storing anything but the comment.
Marsupial@quokk.au 8 months ago
It is, which is why you have the RIGHT not to use a public space and push your information out to millions of people. You explicitly agreed to it the second you started doing it.
And if it didn’t? If it’s just a simple piece of software made by two people? Should they drop everything to cater to European demands?
Europe invaded the world, then turns around and tells the world to respect its self imposed rule it enforces on others. We can’t even host our own space on the internet without you invading and threatening us to operate your way. The only safety we apparently have is in our small size means we might escape notice.
It’s utter arrogance.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Europe funds them. Check where they got their money.
Requiring people (yes also tankies devs) to respect human rights as outlined in many treaties is not a fringe stance.
The GDPR was implemented to require entities to respect human rights by giving privacy watchdogs some teeth. It’s not some strange law people made because they felt like it.
If you don’t understand all of that, maybe just sit down and be quiet.
sudneo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To be precise, it’s not devs that need to worry about GDPR, it’s instance admins. I don’t disagree with you, but I think it’s an important distinction to make.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fair point, it also requires privacy by design though.
And again, why not invest some time into actually respecting privacy. Storing all sorts of info through a framework that is not needed. And at least discuss what is needed and for how long.