“The SCOPE Act takes effect this Sunday, Sept. 1, and will require everyone to verify their age for social media.”
So how does this work with Lemmy? Is anyone in Texas just banned, is there some sort of third party ID service lined up…for every instance, lol.
But seriously, how does Lemmy (or the fediverse as a whole) comply? Is there some way it just doesn’t need to?
Agreed, but - while it might be permissible legally to wipe out my data and content, what if I want to retrieve a copy afterwards?
I wouldn’t want to keep control over other people’s content, but regarding my own…
Well, in that case, baring credible contradicting information from another source, I think it’s reasonable to accept the note from the former worker of a DPO. Would you agree?
Hmm. Will need a good think about this - perhaps I should adjust my commenting style to avoid direct quoting and such…
All the more reason to get started on it, I suppose.
Well, and dealing with responsible for user content from your instance’s local users - but since it’s just the one instance (or small handful if you trust a few others) it’s still much more managable. And it becomes zero for, e.g., single-user instances (since those would have zero other users and thus zero other content to worry about hosting).
That’s why I had the idea of creating and using the federation-bot account - this way there’s no confirmation of identities or transfer of personal data.
Server admin question. Can save that for serverfault.com and the like IMVHO
One of those things that need experimentation and research to determine, but an answer can be found.
Hmm - if different DPOs can’t agree, then I don’t see how we get to the point of a user friendly manual.
This is what’s inherently disturbing to me. I am one of those hoping that the GDPR would be a tool for the opposite (a way to rein in the big players, so to speak).
It was a surprise to read from the former DPO worker that email as a system is not compliant with the GDPR.
Hmm. I am starting to see why you take this view. Not saying I agree, but I can understand the frustration. That said, PIPEDA in Canada came to pass in 2000 - it’s considered to have GDPR-equivalency and we’ve not had the sort of issues that you are raising with PIPEDA, which makes me optimistic that the GDPR can likewise be something that folks can live with.
Even if it is flawed it’s still a step in the right direction IMVHO. I’m in Canada, which had PIPEDA back in 2000 - 18 years before the GDPR took effect in the EU. Hence I believe a solution is workable and a balance can be struck - even if in the worst case that means additional legislation to tweak the existing law. (Though I’d not even go that far - for example, from the former DPO, it seems that if EU courts all agreed that the API behind federation was covered by the “involuntary data transfer” exception then Lemmy would already be GDPR compliant (or mostly so) as-is of the time that I write this.)