But it’s a chat application, those messages aren’t owned by just the user that authored them. Even if a user deletes their account I should be able to go back in my chat history and find their messages and know it was them.
It would be stupid if someone closing their cellular account would somehow reach into my phone and delete their contact, their messages, and replace their phone number with all zeros and this is semantically the same, the implementation shouldn’t matter.
If you send a message to a group chat those messages are now owned collectively by the group and individually by each member, the gpdr is forcing companies to delete my data because someone else asked to delete theirs.
It would be stupid if someone closing their cellular account would somehow reach into my phone and delete their contact, their messages, and replace their phone number with all zeros and this is semantically the same, the implementation shouldn’t matter.
If you send a message to a group chat those messages are now owned collectively by the group and individually by each member, the gpdr is forcing companies to delete my data because someone else asked to delete theirs.