# The EU wants to delete blockchains

Source: https://imagedelivery.net/C5bPuWCkK_P2Rg7LwXEwPQ/b5e82cb9-14d8-4049-0fdd-f4331064af00/public
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-EU-wants-to-delete-blockchains?index=0x680f80359113647e7ecce4326f19c642f16d2149d66fafa7036036e3d69ea9f09874b1a7
Submitted by tim on 2025-04-28 UTC, 5 upvotes, 2 comments

## Comments

**tim**: I looked into the guideline to see if the claim is actually valid and holy shit

> When deletion has not been taken into account by design, this may require deleting the whole blockchain

they've actually said it

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/documents/public-consultations/2025/guidelines-022025-processing-personal-data_en

**macbudkowski.eth**: Haven't the EU planned to make GDPR more lightweight or even delete it entirely? 

Some of these parts are pretty funny when they say that encryption and hashing are not enough. As if storing people's personal data in Google Sheets - as most smaller companies do - provided a great security measure.