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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am not a expert or a lawyer, but I believe user actually hold the right to completely erase personal data:

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay

https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/

Note the word "erasure" as opposed to "anonymize"

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't think that addresses my point. Is my opinion on the new Star Wars movies that I post online or some lines of code I suggest "personal data"? I thought personal data had a specific definition under GDPR

[–] nefonous@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

You're totally right, the content of your posts is not considered personal data (because it isn't) It's more about profiling data that can be connected back to your actual person

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

I think you are right, user generated content doesn't seem to be protected. This is surprising to me, as user should hold the right to their content, which in my mind should enjoy stronger protection than personal data.

[–] Spaenny@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

Technically, they could retain posts from users if they are irreversibly anonymized. However, ensuring with 100% certainty that none of your posts ever contained any personal data that could lead to the identification of you as an individual is challenging. The safest option is therefore to also delete your posts.