Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s...
by tazjin on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:42AM
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> And I wouldn't envy you trying to explain why you shouldn't be continuously fined for GDPR violation in the EU, either
This is kind of a bizarre thought to me. You think anyone who provides software that - without involving any services hosted by that person - should be liable for what users do with this software? If this were to hold up in court (which I'm confident it wouldn't), then open-source software would be done.
Or is this a problem of terminology? In the scuttlebutt case, there is no actual "account" - just a key. Maybe one should simply replace the string "Create account" (if there is such a string) with "Generate key/identity".
This is kind of a bizarre thought to me. You think anyone who provides software that - without involving any services hosted by that person - should be liable for what users do with this software? If this were to hold up in court (which I'm confident it wouldn't), then open-source software would be done.
Or is this a problem of terminology? In the scuttlebutt case, there is no actual "account" - just a key. Maybe one should simply replace the string "Create account" (if there is such a string) with "Generate key/identity".