BrowseDNS - Privacy & Consent
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I honestly thought all the account data would be deleted, posts and uploads included. The posts/Threads stay but their username stays as "A Former User" and you're unable to view their profile.
Edit: @Orbital We all try to stay transparent and professional, but that isn't always the case.
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@VGMoose
Thank you for your transparency and willingness.
Again, the main goal of this post was to get insight, which I find you have provided, and more, not only in your own wording but the cited sources are extremely appreciated as well. I especially appreciate your clarity around account deletion and the nuance of shared content ownership.That said, I do think there’s room for improvement in how these details are surfaced to users, particularly those trying to make informed choices before deleting their account.
For example, the fact that uploads or chat messages aren’t automatically purged, or that deletion locks a user out of further manual clean-up, feels like something worth spotlighting more prominently in your Terms or help pages. A “deletion checklist” or even just an annotated section could go a long way toward transparency.
Likewise, I respect the reliance on NodeBB’s defaults, but as the host, it’s your interpretation and implementation of those defaults that shape the user experience. Are you open to co-developing clearer guidance or even tweaks to the GDPR plugin to accommodate things like ex-user content purges?
Again, I appreciate your openness and professionalism here. The dialogue alone is already a huge step forward, but clarity and structure benefit everyone, especially when acting towards a world where users take more initiative as to what happens with their personal data.
Are you open to co-developing clearer guidance or even tweaks to the GDPR plugin to accommodate things like ex-user content purges?
Definitely. A first step will be to make easier tools for bulk purging before account deletion or via global mod / admin intervention. Also, it should be pointed out that this kind of tool would help permanently banned users as well, who are unable to log back in and do it themselves.
I'm still not sure where to draw the line for something like chat messages though. There could be an automatic clean up if all users leave a chat, for instance, as that data could no longer be accessed.
We would also need a way to verify authenticity of the deletion requests, as we don't want users to be able to social engineer and wipe data of different accounts. Maybe on deletion, an email, IP, or other secret phrase could be left to allow managing the data without an account.
Regarding a roadmap, that's something we should also have. @Raven does occasionally post a thread with what we're working on / upcoming features, but we should also have something like a Github board with priorities and visibility to the public for the implementation progress or feedback.
Sign the petition! Help us figure out the browser timeout.
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I'm not really consistent with the admin changelogs or whatever but that was my first one... If you guys really do want those change logs from us I can definitely do that for you and become consistent.
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Woah, actual content, great post, though it does sound a little like you have swallowed OpenAI, especially when I look at all other content made: https://browsedns.net/user/orbital/posts , but I'm being sarcastic, as VG has replied in an exemplary manner as always.
GDPR is great for EU members, and for me UK GDPR I think Canada, Japan, Australia and a few others have similar attempts at Data policies , and I'm pretty sure the US have a Cali based effort.. but they really do need to catch up here.
Really interesting topic Orbital, seriously. Thumbs Up.
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