It seems they’re implying they needn’t worry you’d lodge a complaint with your DPA for an apparent GDPR article 17 violation since your content was effectively “anonymized.”
IANAL but that sounds like a theory that is easily tested.
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they did specifically assert that they aren't violating GDPR, and yet they are. it's not possible to "anonymize" my data, especially when it contains my writing/typing style and is displayed publicly and permanently.
Again IANAL (and am not privvy to details here) but just from an operational compliance perspective: anonymization is indeed a process that’s valid, but has rules, best practices, precedent, and so forth. It’s routinely applied to datasets with public-facing content but it’s not some kind of trick for evading individual deletion requests from users who have identified themselves and are already publicly associated with their content in close-knit communities (if verifiable anonymization is even feasible in such a case, which I doubt).
My advice would be to make a list of your content and politely send with the template to the instance admin (not the mods). I’m sure they’ll just delete. Seriously, no content is worth the headache.
thank you for the advice, but they won't even allow me to delete the content myself. they are stubbornly claiming ownership of my words.
This is strange, in the past with other staff members that are no longer there. You could have your account deleted at your request.
I should know because I was one of those staff members.
Here is an example of a forum account I deleted at the persons request, when I was there.
https://forums.puri.sm/t/foss-phone-companies/16420/50
https://forums.puri.sm/t/foss-phone-companies/16420/56
So this policy is new. And in place sometime in the last 5 months.
But there are precedents.
yes, i brought it to their attention that other users had been allowed to be forgotten, but they are determined to claim ownership of my words on that site and have denied my request for deletion. and they have also denied me the right to delete my own posts one-by-one.
in the mean time, i've set my repos to private and am completely disengaging with those people.
@user0 that's very sad to hear...
As @Septimaeus mentioned, it might be worth requesting a data deletion via official channels if you want that content gone, I (maybe naively) expect it should work.
A bit sad to see that you also moved your repos to private, though, but thanks for all your work on mobile Firefox so far!