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But that's silly. If you don't trust a website with your cat photo, don't upload your cat photo the website.

As I said above, the only thing my site does with your cat photo is show it back to you when you ask to look at it. No training. No selling your data to anybody. All I'm doing is storing it because you asked me to, and showing it to the people you ask me to.

You can certainly ask me to stop showing it to people. But please don't get all excited about how your rights have somehow been violated.

The fact is, people click delete buttons without thinking about it. Those people get way more mad when they can't undo that delete than you are now.

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> the only thing my site does with your cat photo is show it back to you when you ask to look at it. No training. No selling your data to anybody

Yeah, right.

> You can certainly ask me to stop showing it to people.

There is much better solution: add author's websites to dnsmasq, so they stop resolving:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/ http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles https://stravaeger.com/ http://www.twiddla.com/ https://www.s3stat.com/

I only wish there was a centralized registry of websites that are controlled by parties that have galavant attitude if not deliberate misunderstanding of what does the right to privacy mean.

THXX

That’s not silly. Your rhetoric is.

“I don’t get it, why do people expect a promise to permanently delete your things to akshually do just that”

Such a goofball stance on the subject tbh.

THX!!!!!

This is honestly a foolish response, but I'm still not going to flag you. In fact, I'll even upvote your comment so you get a point. I'm sure you aren't writing this nonsense out of malice—you just genuinely don't understand the issue.

Deletion means deletion. There is no such thing as 'we didn't delete it just in case you did it by accident.' That is just a convenient excuse for illegally hoarding user data, and the law strictly forbids it. What is their lawful basis under the GDPR to keep it after I demand deletion? Exactly: none at all.

> What is their lawful basis under the GDPR to keep it after I demand deletion?

GDPR explicitly permits deletion timeframes. It does not demand that files are instantly destroyed as soon as you click the button.

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