I’d be really keen to host a lemmy instance but just wondering with GDPR and everything, if there is anything else to consider outside of the technical setup and provisioning of hardware?

Lemmy is storing users data so is there any requirement to do anything GDPR wise?

Hope this is the right place for this - But seen a lot of posts interested in hosting their own lemmy instance, and this is an extension of that

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Under GDPR, any piece of potentially identifying information is considered personal data. I had GDPR training at work. Under the GDPR it’s not even possible to count unique visitors to your website because you’d have to keep track of some identifier even if just IP address and User-Agent, even if it’s entirely client side. You still have to get consent for this.

      Even just community subscriptions is plenty of data to make a rather comprehensive profile of the user’s interests, and if you throw in votes it quickly becomes scary.

      This is everything you upvoted:

      • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pubEnglish
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        1 year ago

        However, this duplication mechanism renders content deletion or rectification more difficult. In case of deletion by the user, the platforms with duplicates receive usually an automated deletion request and must be trusted to comply and delete their duplicate.

        Seems like sending the delete notice is all that’s required?

        • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Seems like sending the delete notice is all that’s required?

          Yes, but

          and must be trusted to comply and delete their duplicate.

          So because of that trust factor, if you really want to protect yourself and be 100% GDPR compliant, you’d probably want a legal contract with every instance to federate with ascertaining that they are GDPR compliant too to legally deflect blame if you’re unable to comply with a data delete request.