This is something only an admin can do, right? Or is there a way to enable users to anonymize their own accounts?
If it’s something only an admin can do, then when we receive a request to be forgotten, an admin will need to figure out what email/name/username the person used in the forum and anonymize their account for them. It might be difficult to figure out which forum account belongs to a person. For instance, let’s say Jane Doe registers for the forum with jane.d@company.com, username jdo1, and name Jane D. Then Jane joins a different company. She emails us from J.doe@business.de and requests that we delete her information from all servers. I look in the forum and see we have users like jd75, janed, and doej. We also have several @business.de email addresses, but I’m not sure if any of them are Jane Doe. So it’s hard to figure out who she is and anonymize her.
Edit: By the way, I also can’t just reach out to Jane in the example above and ask her which forum user account was hers. Requests to be forgotten are run through a different department, and I have no way to contact the person. I’m not even sure I’m legally allowed to contact them.