Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law

Re:Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU priv... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:59AM (#16875087)

The mechanism is they send you an email, you verify it as you wish (have them post a comment using their credentials), you overwrite all comments from that uid in the db with a simple query?

If you're using a CMS then it's going to be type the username and hit "delete all comments"; maybe WordPress et al. do this already.

With a small blog the administration of that is going to be facile, surely.

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Re:Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU priv... by tobltobs on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:06AM (#16875132)

Sure it is facile. But it is a burden and a exposure to risk, which wont be worthwhile for the most non profit blogs.

And by the way, most blog comment systems don't require you to create an account before commenting. So this "have them post a comment using their credentials" wont work anyway.

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Re:Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU priv... by morgante on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:56AM (#16876427)

I don't have a login system for my blog.

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