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.

°) much like that elderly lady from Southern Florida ;)

updates

• minor restructuring
• fixed typos

Heh, my reasons are purely… uh… Well, actually a little complicated and multi-layered. The defensible part is I like to be able to discuss work matters or post code anonymously in case it's security oriented or such + my workplace made me sign loyalty papers, no kidding, and I like to be able to criticize or discuss things without risk of retaliation.

> I like to be able to criticize or discuss things without risk of retaliation.

well ... probably I should get a new account too. :)

Is Your Bastard already taken?

Cheers Rolf
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Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}

While it technically doesn't identify a person, the GDPR considers IP addresses personally identifiable, and I imagine PerlMonks does log IP addresses. It could potentially apply to these. (Specifically, I'm not going to try to interpret if it falls in a criteria listed under "When does the right to erasure apply?")

There are some legal obligations to log IP addresses.

GDPR is more about "forgetting" private data related to marketing or "shared with" other companies.

None of these is the case here.

update

To be more explicit:

• I won't get hotel and flight offers into my mailbox after /msging another monk about meeting in Riga.
• No headhunter will call me after reaching sainthood.
• Other websites won't suddenly start to show me ads about IT books because I created an account here.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}

Does my reason for asking affect the answer?

To answer your counter question:

No it doesn't.

And what's your answer now? :)

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}

And what's your answer now? :)

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