People asking to exercise their rights on their own private information are not trolls.
Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)
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#12Does he have any proof that the person is a troll ? From what I read he just assumes it.
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#13Overbearing legislation applied by unelected representatives is being abused. If only there were technical solutions provided with an assumption of goodwill instead of 88 pages of mandates without such an assumption.
Legislation is usually applied by unellected people. Judicial independence is usually seen as a good thing. Perhaps you mean that the law was enacted by unellected people, which is also incorrect of course? So now I don't see your point at all?
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#14I've been sending all kinds of companies a request of my data. Everyone that keeps sending me mails without me knowing why, I just sent them a nice request to give me a copy of my data. After that, I request them to delete it all :)
You're the reason we can't have nice things. I hope you are proud of yourself. GDPR is great but will be ruined by people like you.
Why? It's their data and their right to have it deleted.
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#15Overbearing legislation applied by unelected representatives is being abused. If only there were technical solutions provided with an assumption of goodwill instead of 88 pages of mandates without such an assumption.
Assumption of good will is a trap that naive people fall into. If someone can take advantage of something, it will happen.
> If someone can take advantage of something, it will happen.
As demonstrated by the troll in this very situation, right now (assuming the filer is actually a troll).
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#16Overbearing legislation applied by unelected representatives is being abused. If only there were technical solutions provided with an assumption of goodwill instead of 88 pages of mandates without such an assumption.
Hurr durr who cares about privacy anymore.
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#17Well, if the owner of the forum is receiving request e.g. to delete accounts or to disclose what data is recorded about someone, why not just comply with the request? What's the big deal?
If I ran a forum for a number of years, and a person decided to close their account, that'd be fine. But if they then said that I need to remove _all of their posts_, that's really shitty.
It would destroy the usefulness of a forum.
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#18Well, if the owner of the forum is receiving request e.g. to delete accounts or to disclose what data is recorded about someone, why not just comply with the request? What's the big deal?
From one of his responses in the link "I do appreciate the links. The gdpr documentation is quite long and I lack the domain expertise to read and comprehend the document in full. Perhaps this is cultural, since the United States is a very litigious society, but I would not feel comfortable accepting liability for gdpr compliance without consulting an attorney. It is also unclear how I am expected to respond to DPA execution requests (what the hell is a DPA request?), which I have already received, and what penalties I could face if I fail to provide a sufficient response. Overall, it just seems like outsourcing to StackOverflow or Google Groups makes more sense. This way I can focus my time on making Drone better, as opposed to becoming a legal expert"
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#19Well, if the owner of the forum is receiving request e.g. to delete accounts or to disclose what data is recorded about someone, why not just comply with the request? What's the big deal?
He received the "nightmare letter"[1][2] asking for everything possible under GDPR and then some.
1: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce... 2: https://jacquesmattheij.com/so-your-start-up-receive-the-nig...
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#20Well that sucks, I wonder if this means other discourse instances might be hit with the same GDPR letters? There'll probably be someone who has (or will have) forked discourse to make these changes.
How does Discourse factor into this? From my read of this, it doesn't seem to be specific to the fact that he's using Discourse.