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| author | Brendan Abolivier <babolivier@matrix.org> | 2020-09-01 16:31:59 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-09-01 16:31:59 +0100 |
| commit | b5133dd97f693ca213b30f4f3e874e9ab3958ea7 (patch) | |
| tree | ebb01ede774a92e63f93a4fc7f15fb064abe57a3 | |
| parent | Convert additional databases to async/await part 3 (#8201) (diff) | |
| download | synapse-b5133dd97f693ca213b30f4f3e874e9ab3958ea7.tar.xz | |
Explain better what GDPR-erased means (#8189)
Fixes https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8185
| -rw-r--r-- | changelog.d/8189.doc | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst | 8 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/changelog.d/8189.doc b/changelog.d/8189.doc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..800ff89dc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/8189.doc @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Explain better what GDPR-erased means when deactivating a user. diff --git a/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst b/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst index d6e3194cda..e21c78a9c6 100644 --- a/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst +++ b/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst @@ -214,9 +214,11 @@ Deactivate Account This API deactivates an account. It removes active access tokens, resets the password, and deletes third-party IDs (to prevent the user requesting a -password reset). It can also mark the user as GDPR-erased (stopping their data -from distributed further, and deleting it entirely if there are no other -references to it). +password reset). + +It can also mark the user as GDPR-erased. This means messages sent by the +user will still be visible by anyone that was in the room when these messages +were sent, but hidden from users joining the room afterwards. The api is:: |