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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by hombre_fatal on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:04PM (#19964543)
> GDPR has changed this.

That's a far, far cry from the reality of "possibly prosecutable in EU in some scenarios." We aren't even using a website right now that's in GDPR jurisdiction. But there's also a weird fetishization of GDPR I've noticed where people invoke it like "heh, my dad works for Xbox. just you wait buddy, he'll have you banned."

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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by javagram on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:16PM (#19965301)
I think it’s changed what is best practice. Unless you plan to never introduce your product in the EU, designing your product so that it cannot ever delete data is a bad idea.

In my experience I’ve definitely seen GDPR result in a large company having developers looking at how data can actually be deleted and not just set to deleted=true. I don’t think my company’s lawyers were alone in thinking this suddenly became more important than before.

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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by ironmagma on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:24PM (#19964771)
When a feature (e.g. thoroughly scrubbed data deletion procedure) is introduced into a product, it is often far easier to apply it laterally to all customers than just a subset. For this reason, GDPR has knock-on effects that benefit all users of certain services.
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