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nprateemtoday at 5:32 AM2 repliesview on HN

> If you request deletion of your Hacker News account, note that we reserve the right to refuse to (i) delete any of the submissions, favorites, or comments you posted on the Hacker News site

Probably not GDPR-compliant then if comments can be deanonymised by LLMs.


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WalterGRtoday at 5:53 AM

My understanding is that the GDPR “right to be forgotten” applies to personal data. Are publicly available comments considered personal data?

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lynx97today at 6:33 AM

This is probably the worst piece of policy on whole HN. It has a evil feel to it. If HN wasn't so interesting/valueable, this would be the single reason NOT to use it at all.

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