I think you are mixing up right to be forgotten, and GDPR here a bit.
Excuse me, but what information are you referring to?
user: 0xfffafaCrash
created: October 6, 2014
karma: 203
This information? That was all I, as a fellow user, could see. Rest of the information is not public.
GDPR is about personal data and extra data (metadata) that is used for non-essential business needs like marketing, so user can ask to remove that extra data. But if the data is required for the entity to do business and by law you can't expect it to be deleted. Like you can't demand some e-commerce site to delete all your order information and associated delivery addresses, phones, contacts, you can however ask them to remove the account, so you lose access to orders and they in theory can't associate it with you anymore, or at least use to build profile on what your buying habits are.
So you can't demand (under GDPR) from HN to remove your data, maybe remove account but handle is not personal data so it is a stretch.
If you send a request to the moderators and cite the GDPR I would expect them to delete it. The GDPR doesn't require the deletion process to be automated.
Excuse me, but what information are you referring to? user: 0xfffafaCrash created: October 6, 2014 karma: 203
This information? That was all I, as a fellow user, could see. Rest of the information is not public.
GDPR is about personal data and extra data (metadata) that is used for non-essential business needs like marketing, so user can ask to remove that extra data. But if the data is required for the entity to do business and by law you can't expect it to be deleted. Like you can't demand some e-commerce site to delete all your order information and associated delivery addresses, phones, contacts, you can however ask them to remove the account, so you lose access to orders and they in theory can't associate it with you anymore, or at least use to build profile on what your buying habits are.
So you can't demand (under GDPR) from HN to remove your data, maybe remove account but handle is not personal data so it is a stretch.