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[-] guy@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

That's a bit misleading to say like that. Go to the website, scroll to the footer and click on "Legal". Your instance, feddit.de, has a legal notice, with a privacy contact person, mentioning you can request data erasure, and detailing where your data goes. Mine, lemmy.world, has a number of in depth legal documents attached there.

However, yes, other instances they are federated with might not take it as seriously though, and if all your data is going there too, then that's a hole in your data privacy.

[-] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 7 points 11 months ago

But if I request it there, after its federated everywhere, what happens?

[-] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I imagine that this calls for a feature that can erase your data on every other federated server. If the activitypub protocol can send data from one server to another, it should be able to delete it or find a way to disable viewing said data.

[-] mob@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

Giving servers the ability to delete each others shit would be interesting to watch when an online war breaks out

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

That already exists. The person who created a post or comment can delete it. But it only works sometimes, since federation is constantly not working correctly.

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