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PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude (tech.michaelaltfield.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There could be a legally binding contract stating that any deletion request must be forwarded to all parties it was send to, and that upon receiving such a request the data must be deleted. I do not think this would be unreasonable to ask to servers, especially as this deletion receipt could be fully automated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

legally binding contract

Maybe, but consider that federated servers may be located in entirely different legal jurisdictions, so this might be hard to create, let alone enforce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think it will ever come to a lawsuit, nobody would ever want that. Under the GDPR you must be able to delete content, and the server must communicate this to all federated servers. So in effect, there is already a legally binding agreement between all servers that this deletion request must be honored (for people physically in the eu), it's just not.

lemmy servers are already breaking the GDPR if they don't follow forwarded deletion requests from people in the eu. This would just effectively be an extension of this to data from all people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

When writing a contract you can just specify which legal system the parties agree to use - this is quite common.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or there could be a delay of one minute before posts get federated, giving the user the option to quickly delete a comment or post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That’s a great idea :) Maybe you can submit a feature request for this on GitHub?