| Does HN needs to cancel user comments under GDPR? Ina short anwer : YES, but not because what you think. Under GDPR you have the right to ask your PII to be erased from production (it still goes under archive for a some time depending on legal constraints) So it is valid demand for HN to ask your comments to be erased from be “live” in production Are your comments PII?
Yes, as they are linked to a user, username that is linked to an email and bio, and they may contains also PII inside. So you could ask it to be removed. Can HN avoid that deletion?
Yes only if they prove they have a more valid reason with a legitimate interest to keep it, or that there is any relevant legal obligation to keep it Do they have ?
Not really in that case, however they could also rely on the existence of a particular legitimate interest to inform (if they prove that they are a media), or that there is a legitimate interest relying on the impossibility to understand conversations if you cut off some parts of the discussions and the related feeds. |