You could answer this by answering: Does Hacker News store personally identifiable information? Well: 1. Hacker News has no interest in personal information with regards to its news feed, 2. How does having an email address on your account change things?<p>Things get ambiguous when account names are a persons real name, same for the email address. IP Addresses are also ambigous because of their topical use.<p>Hacker News may log IP Addresses but there is an argument where these IP Addresses can be "traced". Trouble is an IP Address is PUBLICALLY identifiable information. It can be viewed easily and there are no real correlative relationship between IP and person.<p>An argument can stand to say "Hang on, I'm sending this message to Hacker News website via my mobile phone, that has an IP Address mapped to my device, therefore indirectly my IMEI device number is mapped to an IP Address where that IMEI number is mapped to an IMSI number on a SIM card which could be linked to subscriber contract details".<p>Yes true, but that IP Address is from a pool of addresses assigned to that mobile device via the connection provider. It changes based on DHCP Leasing rules.<p>Passwords are not personally identifiable information. HOWEVER, Hacker News still has a responsibility to protect that information.
If it isn't it is pretty close. No JS includes, they use Cloudflare which has gone out of their way to be GDPR compliant, you have full control over your profile and the moderators have so far complied with any reasonable request I have ever made. On top of that there is an easy way to export your data through several services.<p>What specifically would trigger you to wonder?