Has #Scuttlebutt #SSB #SecureScuttlebutt already solved the infinite storage problem? Or does it still use a forever growing blockchain?

#RightToBeForgotten #PermanentRecordsConsideredHarmful

Weekly output: social-media cleanup, Verizon’s phone-unlock waiting period, NASA’s Starliner report

This will be a travel-abbreviated workweek: Friday afternoon, I head to Dulles to start my journey to Spain for MWC Barcelona, still one of my favorite reasons to get on a plane for business. I’ll be there until March 5, so the next few days would be an excellent time to hit me up with any questions you have about the future of the wireless industry.

Meanwhile, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week about my continued struggles with my home WiFi, in which trying to pick out a good mesh-network option has required wrestling with unexpected national-security concerns.

2/17/2026: Social-media cleanses, Al Jazeera

The Arabic-language news channel had me in studio to offer some perspective about people implicated in the Epstein files trying to cleanse their social-media history. I said that if you’re sufficiently prominent, the Internet doesn’t forget things.

2/18/2026: Paid Off Your Phone Early? Verizon to Ease 35-Day Hold to Unlock It, PCMag

Four days after Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin reported that Verizon had begun requiring a 35-day waiting period to complete unlocking a phone paid off early (unless you made that payment in one of Verizon’s own stores with cash or a credit card’s chip or tap-to-pay options), I asked Verizon for comment. Hours later, I got a statement that the company was working to allow online payments to qualify for an immediate unlock–and then Verizon didn’t give Brodkin the same statement.

2/20/2026: Unpacking Starliner Failures, NASA Chief Delivers Scathing Assessment, PCMag

While I was at a space-industry conference in Tysons Thursday, NASA announced the findings of an investigation into everything that went wrong with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule after its first and still only launch with astronauts aboard. So instead of writing up one of the panels at this event, I started reading the agency’s 311-page report, hit up Boeing PR for a comment and got in a call with a longtime observer and critic of NASA. Then I spent more of Friday than I’d planned on writing this post.

Dare to be forgotten.

We have all been trained to think if we did not document it, it did not happen. We have turned our actual lives into content, constantly performing for an audience that isn't even really watching.

There is freedom in the undocumented. If you stop worrying about how a moment looks, you will start noticing how it actually feels. You no longer ask, "How will this look?" and instead ask, "How does this feel?"

Privacy is not just having secrets. It is having a life that belongs to you and not a data center. Some things should not be for sale. Some things are better when they are just yours.

What if the most important thing you did today was something nobody ever found out about?

#DareToBeForgotten #DareToBe #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #SlowWeb #DigitalAsceticism #Intentionality #NoAI #SimpleLiving #JOMO #TheQuietLife #Mindfulness #RightToBeForgotten #LowTech #deGoogle

"Dear Customer,

We would like to inform you that we’ve successfully initiated the request you made to change the data British Airways holds about you.

The process may take up to one calendar month from the date you validated your email address, so please bear with us while we do this."

I'm just happy to have made it this far, sheesh, what a trial. Emails, circular link trails, more forms.

And all to have the "Deleted" record for me in their database updated to "True".....

#righttobeforgotten

Right To Be Forgotten: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/dm2GzzXDKVeFR2bycB7zLN

#GDPR #privacy #europe #CivitAI #RightToBeForgotten #Surveillance #venting

[1/4]
Tried to delete my CivitAI account under GDPR.
They told me: “Just use the button.”

No confirmation data would be erased.
No policy. No transparency.

Fine. I escalated to the Irish DPC.
Their reply?
“You’re from Ukraine. Not our problem.”
...👇

Google Laughs Off Strongly Worded Letter From Privacy Commissioner

Canada's privacy laws continue to be a long running joke after Google laughs of the strongly worded letter from the privacy commissioner.

https://www.freezenet.ca/google-laughs-off-strongly-worded-letter-from-privacy-commissioner/

#Business #News #Privacy #Security #Canada #Google #PersonalInformation #PrivacyCommissioner #RightToBeForgotten

The Canadian Press: Google won’t comply with ‘right to be forgotten,’ privacy watchdog says. “The federal privacy commissioner says individuals have the right to have some information delisted from search engine results, but Google is refusing to comply.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/28/the-canadian-press-google-wont-comply-with-right-to-be-forgotten-privacy-watchdog-says/

it shouldn't be too hard to extend the right to be forgotten to deadnames as well, legislatively

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/showerthough[email protected]/t/1113073