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by viraptor 2086 days ago
> Activision-Blizzard can maybe pull it of

Not maybe. Same thing was proposed as a retaliation against other game companies as well. But Activision will just respond to all those emails with "Go to https://support.activision.com/gdpr"

Yes, it may be tricky. It requires some investment in the process. But unless you earn your money by exploiting user data, it's really not that hard to comply. The less data you keep, the easier it is. And the cost of compliance really scales with the company - for the wordpress with accounts from another comment you can do this manually on request. (likely you'll never need to)

> Not until GDPR compliance becomes a standard in server applications and backup solutions, and when is that going to happen?

https://blog.quantum.com/2018/01/26/backup-administrators-th...

> CNIL confirmed that you’ll have one month to answer to a removal request, and that you don’t need to delete a backup set in order to remove an individual from it.