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I'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.
Of course, he probably is collecting PII, because he's using discourse. But since he says he doesn't have time to answer GDPR requests you can be pretty sure he doesn't take the time to ensure his infrastructure hasn't been owned. I'd wager he doesn't even know what PII the system he runs is collecting, so how can he be securing it on his users behalf?
It's totally reasonable for his users to ask how he's protecting their personal data. If he wants to flip tables and storm out when they ask, that's up to him. From my perspective, the system works. He wasn't making the effort his users deserve to securely store their PII, and so now he isn't storing it at all. No one had to sue anyone, no one had to go to court, and he made the sensible decision to get out of the PII game he had no business being in. Success if ever I heard it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 e…
I think you are right about one thing, the misreading of European law that comes from living in a litigious society. Just act in good faith and GDPR will not bite.
Just act in good faith and GDPR will not bite.
Well 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.
[edit]: @jcastro, I totally didn't realize that was already there, my bad.
People asking to exercise their rights on their own private information are not trolls.
In this case, you are making work for a person that doesn't monetize the platform you're using. It was service that was offered in good faith, and is now, because of this useless request, not going to be available. Instead they are being forwarded to a service that does monetize their service.
No, it is because of an overreaction to a request. If they are acting in good faith then just reply
Can he not extract all that user's data and delete if that is what is being requested?
Well 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.
There is an open question whether posts would need to be deleted are just anonymized from the user account. Safer to delete of course.
Overbearing 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?
I'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.