[realusername]

> GDPR will very soon start to be used by corrupt politicians and other criminals who want "to be forgotten" for their misdeeds

GDPR isn't the right to be forgotten, it's mainly about ownership of customer data, consent & privacy. You can have a look at this developer guide: https://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/ for what it means as a developer.

[jMyles]

> GDPR isn't the right to be forgotten, it's mainly about ownership of customer data, consent & privacy.

I'm not sure if you're making a humorous observation about how the "right to be forgotten" is not a legitimate form of privacy. If you are, bravo.

If you're not, and you are actually unaware of article 17, please see this link:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

[realusername]

I'm aware of this article, it's only for personal data (and especially targeted against data leaks & data gathering in its wording), you can't take off an article of the BBC with that. It's nothing like the French law about the Right to be forgotten.

[jMyles]

There are experts on this topic who have this exact view of the "right to be forgotten" elements of this article. I'm literally at CANS in Naples right now and someone spoke on this subject yesterday.

I don't see anything about it that makes it "especially targeted against data leaks". It offers protections for free speech without being specific about what that means or how it is balanced.

Of course it's not the same as the French Law, but it's still a vector for threatening legal action against someone who wants to maintain and publish facts about an individual.

There was substantial hullabaloo about this here yesterday.

I mean, look, I'm a US national, so my knowledge is limited. But I've spent time in Europe and talked to many people (again, including some leading thinkers and European activists) and I'm telling you, without a shred of a doubt, that this concern exists here.

[realusername]

As with every law, we will see how it's actually used in practice but on my case I did not have much doubts about how it's supposed to be applied, I never understood it as an equivalent on the French one. For me, one of the goals here is when you delete your Facebook account, the data is actually deleted unlike what probably happens now.

[grier]

There's been public analysis of the right to be forgotten. A few good reads: A summary article from NPR [1] and a research paper with a lot more details [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/28/589411543...)

[2] https://g.co/research/rtbf_report

[realusername]

That's not the same concept as the one from the GDPR (even if they share the same name).