We will forget your copy of your data upon your [GDPR right to be forgotten] request
Means the other “copies” of your data are not deleted.
Looking at next sentence it seems to be either typo or even mistake. Better source would be Dendrite(or do they still use Synapse?) issue tracker. But also in last sentence they explicitly say that it is possible for not all copies to be deleted.
This is no mistake, just a loophole for them to claim GDPR compliance while not complying… Hiding “your copy” of the message from you is basically setting a “deletedForYou=true” flag on the message.
It’s possible to redact messages (which is closer to the spirit of what a normal person expects a deletion to be), but redaction preserves the message metadata, and you cannot ever redact anything for a room you’re no longer in. You can only manually redact one message at a time.
So you can request an account deletion, and you can redact single messages… These features are both built in to the protocol.
But account deletion will never cause any redactions.
I showed you the source. All you can say was “it seems to be either typo or even mistake.”
in last sentence they explicitly say that it is possible for not all copies to be deleted[*]
Same goes for SMTP.
Apples to oranges. Matrix is Matrix, not email.
I noticed you shifted this argument from “Matrix is responsibly deleting data” to “Matrix shouldn’t delete data because…”
* And to clarify, Matrix says “not all copies will be deleted” because they built their server intentionally to never delete any other copy of your messages when you request an account deletion.
Looking at next sentence it seems to be either typo or even mistake. Better source would be Dendrite(or do they still use Synapse?) issue tracker. But also in last sentence they explicitly say that it is possible for not all copies to be deleted.
This is no mistake, just a loophole for them to claim GDPR compliance while not complying… Hiding “your copy” of the message from you is basically setting a “deletedForYou=true” flag on the message.
It’s possible to redact messages (which is closer to the spirit of what a normal person expects a deletion to be), but redaction preserves the message metadata, and you cannot ever redact anything for a room you’re no longer in. You can only manually redact one message at a time.
So you can request an account deletion, and you can redact single messages… These features are both built in to the protocol.
But account deletion will never cause any redactions.
By design.
Source please. Anyway:
Same goes for SMTP. Do you complain about SMTP in same way?
I showed you the source. All you can say was “it seems to be either typo or even mistake.”
Apples to oranges. Matrix is Matrix, not email.
I noticed you shifted this argument from “Matrix is responsibly deleting data” to “Matrix shouldn’t delete data because…”
* And to clarify, Matrix says “not all copies will be deleted” because they built their server intentionally to never delete any other copy of your messages when you request an account deletion.