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    Right to be forgotten - deleting user content which is part of a story

    Its interesting because there are two conflicting debates raging. One about people taking responsibility for what they say and do online, and the other about privacy. To me they seem completely at odds with each other. My website is not like Facebook, where they insist you use your real name and...
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    Right to be forgotten - deleting user content which is part of a story

    It sounds simple, but I don't think it is. From what you've said, emails that I send would also be my data, so I would need a way to unsend an email, or unpost a letter. So if I unsend those emails to my solicitor and everything is deleted, then I could say I never agreed to anything. Also...
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    Right to be forgotten - deleting user content which is part of a story

    Another sticky point is private messages, once a message is sent to someone, does it become as much theirs as the person who wrote it, or should it still get deleted?
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    Right to be forgotten - deleting user content which is part of a story

    Thanks for the replies. I discussed this with someone offline and they came up with a similar solution. In broad technical terms, I was thinking to implement this by nullifying the user content text but otherwise leave the entries in the database (no personal information, just comment ID linked...
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    Right to be forgotten - deleting user content which is part of a story

    Please note where I said "established user were to leave" I mean by that "established user were to delete their account". For some reason it won't allow me to edit my post, saying my change is "spam-like" *scratches head*
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    Right to be forgotten - deleting user content which is part of a story

    I have a small social network style website, which has user content at its core. Forums, articles, comments and so forth. Currently, members can hide their account which removes their profile and articles from public view, and turns anonymous their comments and forum posts. This account can be...
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