I did wonder that. While technically that's true, in reality I believe:
- They are under no obligation to keep your data if they delete your account
- They are under no obligation to give you your data in a human-readable format
- If they are unable to securely validate your identity, they would have a stronger obligation to refuse
- There are caveats for when extracting your data would be disproportionately difficult.
For example, if they encrypt emails individually at rest and then throw away the decryption key attached to your account login record, I don't know what legal recourse you would have.
That's not to say categorically you're wrong. I suspect you might be right, and I imagine that Vivaldi themselves might be extremely helpful. It's quite a new service though, and I haven't seen any evidence one way or another.
The glibc stewards are seeking input from developers to decide if the project should relax the requirement to assign copyright for all changes to the Free Software Foundation,"
I do not, and have never, had an assignment in place (it's a running joke that my patch contributions have been all-minus-signs)," wrote glibc contributor Rich Felker, "but given recent behaviour by the FSF board, I am completely unwilling to assign copyright to them in the future, so not making this change may affect my ability to contribute.
No, it isn't relevant. He's used that handle for about 40 years, but you can't use that to conclude much about his position on any current issue. He was a co-founder of Cygnus Support (which eventually merged with Red Hat), and the name was a recursive acronym for Cygnus: Your GNU Support.
But Gilmore and RMS had very different ideologies. They mostly agreed about the importance of free software for empowering users, but their definitions of freedom had many differences: Gilmore's a strong libertarian, RMS is a social democrat.
yes. there's a hint on the ideology under attack in your observation. empowered users are dangerous to real-life systems. best keep such power in the hands of a select few properly credentialed engineers.
...not eye to eye with Gilmore? Thanks for gnu tar, liberating bsd, parts of gnu make, gbd, curating binutils and gcc with Cygnus, helping in the crypto wars, frees/wan, boots, gnu radio, one laptop per child... so it might be hard to be eye to eye me thinks...
Also look at the conference series Working Class Districts and Urban Policies https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...