GDPR "Right to be forgotten" (my comments on your blog)

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  blamer · Member · May 24, 2018 at 8:12 pm

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  How can a user delete all their comments today?

  We require a way for a user (“the Author”) to remove comments they have made on somebody’s WordPress blog posts.

  Evidently the Author can login and view their comments, but not delete them.

  The GDPR has come into effect today (after the 2-year lead time). We can no longer rely on the owners of each blog to respond to each comment-removal request.

  Refer to Article 17 of the GDPR (“The right to be forgotten”) https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 24, 2018 at 8:13 pm

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  See the sticky post at the top of these forums please: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/about-the-gdpr/

  This thread is also tagged for a Staff follow-up.

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  timethief · Member · May 24, 2018 at 8:15 pm

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  Author – can write, upload photos to, edit, and publish their own posts.
  An Administrator has full power over the site and can do everything related to site administration*. Administrators can create more Administrators, invite new users, remove users, and change user roles. They have complete control over posts, pages, uploaded files, comments, settings, themes, imports, exports, other users – the whole shebang.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · May 25, 2018 at 1:51 am

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  Hi there,

  You have always had the ability to contact the owner of the site and request the comments to be deleted. You can follow that process to request any comments on your site to be deleted.

  If a visitor to your site requests you delete their data from your site, you have the tools at your disposal to do this. For information on how to manage/delete comments on your site, please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/manage-comments/. Additionally, subscribers to a blog are able to unfollow it at any time and the link for that is included in the footer of the follow emails.

  From https://automattic.com/automattic-and-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/

  Hope this helps,

  Thanks,