You know, I think I'm going to make some software that just siphons every ActivityPub message (ignoring delete requests except to log them) and call it "GDPR THIS". The amount of mysticism and confusion around two very basic concepts (ActivityPub works by copying profusely, and the GDPR has no weight outside of the EU) just leaves me baffled here.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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It's been a problem for a while. Considering major social media companies have already gotten massive fines from the EU for violating the GDPR, maybe the lemmy devs will put more effort in setting up a deletion system once the EU sends them a fine for breaking the law?
The EU doesn't have global jurisdiction, if an instance developer or admin has no EU presence then they could just ignore them.
Sure, but EU data protection laws may require EU based Lemmy instances to block instances that dont honour deletion requests.
This is why mastodon was built GDPR compliant by design.
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