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submitted 8 months ago by maltfield@monero.town to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs.

Nightmare on Lemmy St - A GDPR Horror Story
Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story)

This is (also) a horror story about accidentally uploading very sensitive data to Lemmy, and the (surprisingly) difficult task of deleting it.

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 9 points 8 months ago

Impossible to be done if not every servers plays by the rules.

Sort of non news too, "don't put sensitive data on display, especially on the internet".

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

With federation it's kinda like complaining archive.org doesn't have a good way to purge page snapshots in case you post something on your website you regret later. Or search engine caches. Or the local scammers replicating your page with curl for a phishing scam.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social -1 points 8 months ago

The author pretty freely admits he shares some blame, having PII on the same phone he uses Lemmy, using Lemmy while not paying attention/being half asleep. I'm sure he does know better and agrees with your statement. And yet, when mistakes happen and people prove to be fallible, Lemmy proves it is not capable of handling the problem.

I also can't believe the Lemmy developers would be so indignant about being presented with such an oversight. GDPR or no GDPR, federated to other servers or not, the idea of PII being hard/impossible to delete from a social media platform is an embarrassment to the developers.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 points 7 months ago

I think you don't understand how federation works.

It's like you show something sensitive on TV, and you want to "erase" that from everyone seeing it.

Lemmy isn't centralized like Reddit or Facebook.

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