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Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR by capableweb on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @11:04AM (#27277747)
Solved problem already: Hash the username + a salt and change that everywhere. Every comment is from a unique author + the comment body is still there + all the replies are still there but, author name has been removed.
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Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR by Buttons840 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @11:56AM (#27278466)
That's a decent solution. But I think simply replacing the usernames with [deleted] is better. It leaves the comment but detaches the user and breaks the link between all the users comments.
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Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR by capableweb on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @11:58AM (#27278500)
It becomes very hard to track conversations with N+2 users though, if more than one has the [deleted] username. Hence the hashing to get a unique [deleted] username for each user.
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Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR by kuschku on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:57PM (#27279299)
That's not legal either. If the comment body contains personal information anywhere, GDPR also applies to it.
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