Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

@dsp the UK has ratified GDPR though. A British website administrator is a data controller. GDPR clearly states in the very beginning of the document that its scope is protection of the rights of natural persons worldwide, and a push-back against the global data misuse.

@simon tl, dr: you may choose to not gather PII, then you need PP mentioning it.

If you choose to gather PII:

- PP with your contacts, memo of users' rights.
- TOS.
- Think ahead about how will you process requests for erasure.

@simon back to the text of the law: if you insist on storing personal data and its mapping to a user name or displaying personal data or identifiable information [I.(26)], you will have to forewarn the user by presenting them with a privacy policy. Note that E-Mail addresses can sometimes squarely and beyond doubt be personal data. In PP, you will have to tell the user everything they legally need to know about the way you process it [II.(6)].

The user will then have to have a way to break consent, which means that the content of their comments may be retained based on terms of service, while the link between the personal data and the data the user produced on the platform must be severed and further processing should be avoided. Furthermore, they may exercise the right to be forgotten (III.(17)] to make you, within reasonable time, delete their data.

The problem is that even if your tos say "we will anonymise your user-generated content", you will have to go through all the content to demonstrate that other user-generated content which is in itself data that your system processes doesn't expose or even internally contain personal data or PII. Examples: quote feature on forums, users calling each other by name based on the information disseminated by your system, archive.org snapshots.

Aside from this consideration, as long as your platform doesn't use automated decision-making based on the personal data, you're in the clear.

@simon @plausible this one trick GDPR lawyers don't want you to know about. 🤣

@simon very importantly – none of this matters if you pseudonymise identities. This is what we're currently doing on the public deployment of https://app.zerohr.io. See our PP: https://app.zerohr.io/privacy

GDPR and laws alike only protect the identities of natural persons, not the devices or software. That's why usages of systems like @plausible are automatically as GDPR-complaint as the system that embeds it.

@simon https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e1797-1-1 remember, this is a blanket text. Member-states can add but hot remove constraints.

Under general don't need a function to delete comments, but you need to have a [not necessarily automatic] way for a user to ask to delete all the comments and the information that they ever left any comments. I'll find the exact article and point in some minutes.

I'm very interested what LLM would say.

I wonder how surprised will westerners be when the war extends to central Europe. 🤔

While the attack on Ukraine is 100% russia and russian fault, I think that the extension of this war shall be mostly the fault of westerners. Which would be very ironic, because the next russian expansion will happen due to, not despite of slow military support that the West is providing to Ukraine!

@isabel @cafkafk oh wait but does it mean my mom will have no nixos anti-air missiles to protec from russians? 😭

@LubinP it's beautiful

@srtcd424 hahaha 😃

@arjen no, we can't. We can only resist. 😢

@catsalad my hypothesis is that there are 16 missing and she was a junior champ of Central Asia in 14 by 14 checkers!

@MAKS23 I'm sorry to quote nazis, but the only solution here is "the final solution to the russian problem".

@fanf42 thank you so much for the response! How long is probation period and are candidates normally comfortable with it? If you're interested, I can tell how Serokell hires, so that I'm contributing something to the conversation, haha.