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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by shevekofurras on Sunday September 22, 2024 @06:54AM (#41616193)
You can't nuke your account. You can close it but your comments remain on the site. They'll delete your account and assign your comments and posts to a random username.

Yes this violates any EU citizen's right to be forgotten under GDPR. Welcome to silicon valley.

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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by whamlastxmas on Sunday September 22, 2024 @12:32PM (#41618138)
Does every comment previously attached to your account have a unique username or do they still all share the same?

Sort of moot point considering the multiple HN archives that would still have the original username attached

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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by shevekofurras on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:38PM (#41620308)
The username is changed but the comments remain attached to a single different name.
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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by Der_Einzige on Sunday September 22, 2024 @01:34PM (#41618539)
How would one report this to the EU and force HN to follow the GDPR?
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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by kyboren on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:01PM (#41618720)
AFAIK Y Combinator does no business in the EU and HN is hosted in a US data center.

Under which legal theory does EU law apply here?

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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by johnnyanmac on Monday September 23, 2024 @02:36PM (#41629171)
No business? It's purely an American company?

I could be hallucinating, but I swore job boards also had peopel hire from the EU.

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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by godelski on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:36PM (#41618991) 

  > You can't nuke your account. You can close it but your comments remain on the site.
Which is why I'd write an open letter and not do the thing. If I could nuke my account I wouldn't need to ask Dang, and I would have already done it.
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