Re: Poster email addy
Reply #16 –
IP address is still considered personal information in parts of Europe. The provincial government of Munich has declared Google Fonts out of bounds because sites are giving IP addresses (by way of requests for fonts) to Google without the person’s consent.
As for posts, I thought I’d made it clear that posts in general were fine and protected under other parts of the GDPR as long as the posts didn’t contain personal information.
The unfortunate reality is that account deletion really should mean deletion where technically achievable but that there is no mandate on you to use it that way, as long as you are aware of what the platform does and when different options are relevant. Account deletion absolutely exists in the platform, currently it does not go far enough, and that is a thing that should be fixed to account for regions where it really does matter - even though large chunks of the law are stupid.
Re: Poster email addy
Reply #21 –
The problem with deleting the email when banning an account is that the system will at some point reevaluate the ban and go “I don’t know why this is banned”. In any case there are provisions for this in the GDPR for keeping records of bad actors in the interests of protecting the service from interruption.
You can also, as I mentioned, use the “pending deletion” flag which is an account status separate to banning, and which should prevent most if not all communications.