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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by simion314 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:27AM (#21070078)
How can I use GDPR as a criminal? Do I ask google to delete my account? and because a criminal asks to delete an account or an email Google should in fact keep copies of all emails and all data forever? Browsers should then not allow to delete your history because some criminal can use that functionality, it is obvious a function created to hide stuff /s
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by narrator on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:47AM (#21070213)
I don't think one should be able to hide data from the proper authorities if they are properly authorized by law, but one should be able to hide it from non law enforcement. Browser history deleting and such are a reasonable accommodation of the latter. I guess Wikileaks violates this rule, but they don't care about violating people's privacy unless they're corrupt politicians.
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