What’s the definition of “legal trouble”? There’s very little the EU can do to enforce GDPR on a small business in the US. So far there’s not a single precedent of successful cross border enforcement, though plenty of companies comply voluntarily.

@nsokolsky see description. Any form of legal action is sufficient. I will also count a credible threat of legal action.

The Cambridge dictionary defines a legal action as

the act of using a lawyer or a court to help settle a disagreement, etc. that you have with a person or an organization

@nsokolsky Are you not counting the $1.3 billion that Meta was fined earlier this year?

@nsokolsky https://gdpr.eu/fines/

> GDPR fines are designed to make non-compliance a costly mistake for both large and small businesses.

What are the GDPR Fines? - GDPR.eu

GDPR fines are designed to make non-compliance a costly mistake for both large and small businesses. In this article we’ll talk about how much is the GDPR fine and...

@nsokolsky As Manifold serves users covered by GDPR, they are absolutely subject to compliance with GDPR.

GDPR is bad actually. The first thing I'm doing when I become emperor of the world is banning those dumb cookie permission banners

@Sinclair Ban all cookies that you can’t eat instead.

@Sinclair the idea is really good, they should have just established a shared way to make the choice (required/functional/advertising) in the browser

@Sinclair cookie banners are from separate regulation written decades ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive

Worth noting that any site can satisfy the right to erasure by responding to requests to erase manually. https://manifold.markets/jack/does-gdpr-require-selfserviceautoma#gEBxtmiy7Si0sHySU98j

Does GDPR require self-service/automated account deletion?

Resolved NO. GDPR requires organizations to delete user data upon request (with a few specific exceptions). Does it place requirements on how such request must be made? E.g. does it require self-service, automated deletion processing, or can all deletion requests be handled by contacting customer su…

@jack Maybe the current delete button can be construed as misleading because it doesn't delete anything?

But the TOS clearly states that one needs to contact them https://manifold.markets/privacy.html#request

@AlexbGoode If anything, that’s probably worse for the current setup. A delete button that sends you to a contact us page is not misleading, the current setup is.

@AlexbGoode it does permanently delete their email btw

In what sense can't a user delete their account? Not about the click the big red "permanently delete account" to find out!

@chrisjbillington From what I’ve seen of @SirCryptomind deleting his account, he could still comment. It also didn’t remove any existing comments or markets, both of which could potentially contain personally identifiable information. Given that he could also log in to make those posts, it implies that his email and password are still held by manifold.

@Noit My understanding is he was somehow using an API key to message people from beyond the grave. Not sure how that works.

Independent of the API working with deleted accounts they can be un-deleted. That means the account was never deleted in the first place.

@JohnSmithb9be Deleting your account doesn't really delete much at all. You don't need to use API, you can just keep using the website.

@jack Huh. Can a deleted user get promoted in Leagues?

Was wondering about this market, the creator of which has deleted their account. They were in first spot in silver looking guaranteed to promote to platinum. Quickly flipping through all the silver leagues. I don't see them now.

https://manifold.markets/OrangePeel/will-i-be-promoted-to-platinum-in-l-ad93b2873468

Will I be promoted to *Platinum* in leagues?

6% chance. As question states. Will resolve YES if promoted Will resolve NO if not I will close predictions Midnight ET 08/01/23, before random close of league points tally.

@chrisjbillington I believe they are removed from leagues, yes