Comment 0 for bug 358017

I can edit the question but I can't edit the answer. Why you can edit the question and not the answers or replies?

What if I'm doing e-shopping having also https://answers.launchpad.net/ open. I'm copying and pasting my credit card number in the e-shop form, then suddenly my cat jump on my keyboard and the my credit card number is pasted in a answers.launchpad.net and the form is submmitted?

What if I'm reporting a long log file excerpt with personal informations (like MAC addresses or passwords) and after removing almost all sensible informations and submitting the reply I realized that I missed the remove a single important personal information?

Websites like stackoverflow.com allow you delete a reply for any reason without delay. Other sites wait some minutes before copying replies across the network (through mails) for decrease the information leak in case that the user changed his/her mind and decide to remove his/her post.

Some jurisdiction like the Italian law about privacy says that the holder of personal data should be able to obtain the removal of any personal data without any unjustified delay (Dlgs 196/2003 Art. 7 and Art.8) http://www.camera.it/parlam/leggi/deleghe/Testi/03196dl.htm

The law speaks about the removal of any data which is personal, not only data *too* personal.

Maybe this something that it's true to all the EU. I'm not a lawyer.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_privacy_law :
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The European Directive on Protection of Personal Data, released on July 25, 1995 was an attempt to unify the laws on data protection within the European Community. As a result, customers of international organizations such as Amazon and eBay in the EU have the ability to review and delete information, while Americans do not.
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Isn't the law of country of the user that matters when a service is used across countries boundaries?