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Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)

submitted 1 year ago by elbowmacaroni@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it's visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit.

Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible

Deleted account usernames remain visible too

Anything remains visible on federated servers!

When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server

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[–] philpo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Partially right - Amazon would be liable, but not towards the data owner but Facebook. The data owner sues Facebook, Facebook then sues Amazon.

A copy&paste agreement is the first (and from my point of few most important step). Personally I would also integrate a automatic mechanism that deletes data (e.g. the delete request gets automatically federated) and defederates instances that do not follow them globally. Sadly this is still not enough - data handling in the US and other jurisdictions with similar bad privacy laws is also a problem, see the recent Facebook case and Schremp2. But tbh I have no idea how to solve that.

Lemmy can, by definition, not be GDPR obtain full GDPR compliance. We should make sure that best effort is ensured, especially with the right of deletion and the right to "know"(where data is stored), but also consider lobbying towards a reformed law for the federated use cases.