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Lemmy and GDPR - What is the current state? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by NewBrainWhoThis@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As the Fediverse grows more and more, rules and regulations become more important. For example, is Lemmy GDPR compliant? If not, are admins aware of the possible consequence? What does this mean for the growth of Lemmy?

Edit: The question "is Lemmy GDPR compliant" should mean, does the software stack provide admins with means to be GDPR compliant.

Edit2: Similar discussion with many interesting opinions on lemmy.ml by /u/infamousbelgian@waste-of.space--> https://lemmy.ml/post/1409164

Edit3: direct link to philpo great answer-->https://feddit.de/comment/840786

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy is GDPR compliant, as far as I know.

Admins can entirely purge you off their instance, should you ask them to, and other servers do not store any personal details that GDPR would require be deletable. By most interpretations.

It can be argued that previously federated data that is now out of reach and as such cannot be deleted, could constitute a breach of GDPR.