Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. - eviltoast

Title says it. Apparently lemmy devs are not concerned with such worldly matters as privacy, or respecting international privacy laws.

  • ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    11 months ago

    They can’t fine the “lemmy devs” (nor any other Fediverse devs). They can fine the operators of servers, and even there only those operating servers in the legal jurisdiction of the EU (which is checks notes the EU).

    • 0xtero@kbin.social
      2·
      11 months ago

      In this case, the “lemmy devs” and the operators of lemmy.ml are the same people and it’s hosted within EU.
      But - that’s still a far cry from getting any kind of GDPR violation report going, much less getting it through the process to actual fines.
      People like to bring up GDPR violations as a some kind of super-moderator tool, but it isn’t that easy and it definitely isn’t automated.

      • ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        You are missing theseveral points.

        1. Lemmy is software. lemmy.ml is a server. The devs of Lemmy can’t be fined unless specifically the server they operate (lemmy.ml, recall) is doing something against the GDPR.
        2. There is more than Lemmy in this picture. You’re on kbin. There’s dozens of other servers based on ActivityPub out there, all of which can be breaking the GDPR. This non-problem is not related to Lemmy. It’s the foundational architecture of ActivityPub. (And HTTP, incidentally. And XMPP. And and and and… Literally every distributed protocol ever made or that ever will be made has this non-problem.
        3. The things people are complaining about here may not actually even be covered by GDPR.