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I think it's unfortunate to discuss two unrelated topics in the same thread.

IMHO GDPR mostly applies to FB style personal information which is hardly found on PM and could be easily handled by blurring the home node and changing the name of the account. (Nothing new ... Gods did that already in the past)

However this doesn't apply in BUK's case because he's a virtual persona and always carefully avoided revealing his real name. IOW he doesn't seem to need that protection.°

Anyway: Users here are already free to erase personal information by pressing the edit button .

Deleting all posts of a user is out of question, since they belong to a thread's interaction.

There is a common misconception that users own a post, sometimes even that the OP owns the thread (like trying to silence other contributions)

That's wrong, it's rather like a public picnic where people share food ... But with the important difference that passive by-passers can profit even years later ( by reading the archived posts, or reviving a discussion)

But there can't be a right to have your sausages "erased" after leaving the party.

You can only request to have your face erased from those picnic selfies ... And that's the user name and home node.

If that's not already made clear in our terms of use , than it would probably be worth asking the Perl Foundation for help to hire a legal counsel.

Update

See also Stack Overflow's GDPR terms, which might be used as a template here.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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°) much like that elderly lady from Southern Florida ;)

updates

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  • fixed typos

In reply to Re^2: Something changed the creation time/date of all my posts? (GDPR) by LanX
in thread Something changed the creation time/date of all my posts? by BrowserUk

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