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mimimi31 | 2 years ago

>simply making the username equal to "[deleted]" is likely compliant.

What if any of the comments themselves contain a name, username or other personal data that could be used to connect it to a person? "Anonymization" by deleting comment's authors like that just seems unnecessarily risky considering the potential fines.

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x0x0|2 years ago

> considering the potential fines

No fine has been close to the maximum; no fine has been put in place for any set of facts anything close to a public forum post not being fully anonymized. If you don't believe me, you're free to read the set of DPA decisions to date as well as the edpb and wg guidance.

There have been many complaints about similar actions (esp Discord) and, to date, no DPA actions. In fact, the CNIL did fine Discord for other things, and didn't touch this.