Schneier on Security : Privacy and Control

Re:Schneier on Security : Privacy and Control by jpwatts on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @12:49PM (#1245017)

Regarding your point #3: how would "scrub" work with interconnected user data? Comment threads like this one are a good example; my comment is dependent on yours for context. Should you be able to delete your data and leave my comment dangling? If so, should your deletion cascade to my related data? Shouldn't I have a say in that?

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Re:Schneier on Security : Privacy and Control by mrcharles on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @03:23PM (#1245389)

Certainly that's a grey area, but I don't see why such posts couldn't just replace the user with "Unknown User" and leave the actual data there. Definitely there'd be a problem with conversations when some posts disappear. But I should still be able to detach myself from those things.

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Re:Schneier on Security : Privacy and Control by kngspook on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @08:10PM (#1246021)

This becomes a bigger problem when you're dealing with quoting.

Suppose I wrote something like: "As MrCharles said above, it's a grey area, but...".

So then what? Do we scrub all mentions of your username down the thread? What about typos?

Don't get me wrong -- I'm all for a scrubbing mechanism -- but it's a complicated problem.

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