Data Erasure

GDPR’s Dirty Secret: You Need to Code to Actually Delete Your Data

A developer tried to delete his Discord messages through the official GDPR process. After weeks of emails, Discord offered to delete only if he provided message IDs from his data export. He built an open-source tool to do it automatically. The real story: GDPR compliance is a tax on technical literacy, and your data rights are an illusion unless you can code.