[flatline]

I find it curious and saddening that this is becoming an expectation. Someone voluntarily publishes something for the world to see - they are certainly within their rights to issue a retraction, but they have long since relinquished control over others’ actions with the data they published. This is pretty fundamental to how the internet works. The fact that there is now an expectation of continued control over said data just shows how far companies like Facebook have gone toward fundamentally changing the nature of the internet.

[bunderbunder]

The internet was created in a different age. The kinds of abuses people are worrying about right now were barely even possible when the Internet was created. Now they're quite feasible using relatively inexpensive and well-known technology, and people who are eager to share the knowledge of how to do it have created all sorts of MOOCs and bootcamps and even accredited degree programs on the subject.

[sebthedev]

Under many data privacy laws, data subjects have a legal "right to correct" any inaccurate personal data concerning him or her.

GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-16-gdpr/