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Discussion on: Database Design and the GDPR

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agtoever

To maintain referential integrity in your database en prevent cascaded deletes if a user claims the GDPR right to be forgotten, you can anonymize the user’s account: overwrite anything that can trace back the account to that specific person: hustle personal info, username, ip addresses, etc. This way, you can retain the records in your database (for whatever reason) and comply with the GDPR.

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Lucia Cerchie

Yes, I think that's how StackOverflow is using their license on the content.

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Lucia Cerchie

Although, I wonder how this type of thing would work for content like selfies-- seems like anonymizing usernames wouldn't cut it in that scenario.