Lemmy and GDPR - What is the current state?
Lemmy and GDPR - What is the current state?
As the Fediverse grows more and more, rules and regulations become more important. For example, is Lemmy GDPR compliant? If not, are admins aware of the possible consequence? What does this mean for the growth of Lemmy?
Edit: The question "is Lemmy GDPR compliant" should mean, does the software stack provide admins with means to be GDPR compliant.
Edit2: Similar discussion with many interesting opinions on lemmy.ml by /u/infamousbelgian@waste-of.space--> https://lemmy.ml/post/1409164
Edit3: direct link to philpo great answer-->https://feddit.de/comment/840786
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Does Lemmy even need to be gdpr compliment? It's not a company, it's private individuals.
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This isn't true since your single user instance is federated. For example, this comment is going to end up on your instance, and it could have my personal data.
edit: here's a meta-link to this comment on your instance: https://lemmy.cwagner.me/comment/2786 -- despite it originating from lemmy.one and the post being lemmy.ml from a user on lemmy.world (interestingly every person involved in this interaction is on a different instance)
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You can disable most endpoints in your application firewall, or put them behind a whitelist. For federation to succeed you don't need all that many publicly reachable endpoints (mostly a bunch of inboxes and the data for your own user account).
I don't think the privacy policy is sufficient. My post will end up on your server but also on the server this community is hosted on, from which it'll end up on hundreds or thousands of other servers. I've never agreed to any of their privacy policies and terms of service and neither has anyone else here.
The concept of the Fediverse doesn't work well with traditional corporate interpretations of privacy law. Going strictly by the way it's interpreted for traditional social media, you're on the hook for any personal data your private instance stores and makes available. This approach effectively kills the concept of the Fediverse, so I sort of fear the inevitable DPA investigation and/or lawsuits.
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For now anyways, I can see that changing in the future. Company centric instances with communities for each of their product lines.
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It doesn't apply to purely personal use. See Article 2 section 2 (c). For shits and giggles would fall under that.
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I agree. I was replying to your comment that GDPR applies to private data collection for shits and giggles, which isn't correct. For Lemmy, I'm certain it applies. GDPR applies to small churches even