Crossgeposted von: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/140646
ActivityPub, the protocol that powers the fediverse (including Mastodon – same caveats as the first two times, will be used interchangeably, deal with it) is not private. It is not even semi-private. It is a completely public medium and absolutely nothing posted on it, including direct messages, can be seen as even remotely secure. Worse, anything you post on Mastodon is, once sent, for all intents and purposes completely irrevocable. To function, the network relies upon the good faith participation of thousands of independently owned and operated servers, but a bad actor simply has to behave not in good faith and there is absolutely no mechanism to stop them or to get around this. Worse, whatever legal protections are in place around personal data are either non-applicable or would be stunningly hard to enforce.
Eine völlig ausreichende Verteidigung in dem Fall. DSVGO ist kein magischer Zauberstab, der dafür sorgt, dass deine komplette digitale Vergangenheit auf einer Plattform simsalabim getilgt werden muss. Am besten noch auf allen Geräten, die jemals deine Posts gelesen haben oder davon etwas gespeichert haben könnten (Screenshot, CTRL-C/CTRL-V). Das setzt die DSVGO schon recht sinnvoll Grenzen des Möglichen und Notwendigen.