I was thinking about this recently… By going to a federated system, one that essentially copies all of your content from one instance to another, when you delete a comment, does that comment get deleted on every instance? Is that even possible?

  • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    No, the right to be forgotten is about data that can be used to identify you stored by a service provider. It’s not a right to have every record on the internet purged.

    I guess you could force Instances one by one to forget you, but a single provider only has to make sure they deleted the data they stored.