Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)

Post by bigbugbag » Sat, Jun 02, 2018, 9:02 PM UTC

tzs wrote: post #109

weberc2 wrote: post #27

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How does GDPR affect people in other countries with no interest in doing business in Europe? If I host a forum in the US and you ask me to remove your posts and I tell you where to stick it, what legal consequences might I face? Erm, asking for a friend.

If you aren't in the Union, it applies to you if either [1]: (a) you are processing data of data subjects who are in the union related to the offering of goods or services to such data subjects, or (b) you are processing data of data subjects who are in the union related to monitoring of their behavior as far as their behavior takes place within the Union. If you can avoid both of these, then I believe you can pretty…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 02, 2018, 9:24 PM UTC

detaro wrote: post #329

dnomad wrote: post #320

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It's not clear that a forum administrator would need to do anything under the GDPR except respond to emails with the standard template: "The forum does not collect or process any personal data." Technically, I suspect, this would be true. The GDPR and the right to be forgotten are subtle on this. If a user chooses, unprompted, to share PII it's not clear that collection has taken place. Imagine a user, out of the blu…

Usernames can be identifying, as could other profile information. IP addresses in server logs. Those are easily under your control, and you should mention those as things you process, but also are easy to justify assuming you don't do anything weird with them.

Post by DoreenMichele » Sat, Jun 02, 2018, 9:27 PM UTC

merinowool wrote: post #492

DoreenMichele wrote: post #46

I"m not really a fan of the GDPR. I don't think it really protects privacy. I think it just uses the power of the EU, a fairly big and strong organization, to intimidate the rest of the world to comply with laws that it really shouldn't have legal jurisdiction to enforce globally. I think this is a scary precedent to set that the biggest bully on the block can de facto enforce such standards because the rest of the w…

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Post by repsilat » Sat, Jun 02, 2018, 9:37 PM UTC

bigbugbag wrote: post #484

defertoreptar wrote: post #124

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As someone who ran a forum centered around one of my passions, I was happy to help users out with small adminstrative tasks. Like you said, no big deal. Now if I was legally required to act on every request in 30 days or face potential litigation, that's a totally different story. I'm doing something that's a fun hobby of mine for free that will benefit others with similar interests. The line is drawn when it can hav…

This misrepresentation of the situation is well addressed in the other reply, but I'd like to point out that unless your hobby is collecting and processing personal data, you simply have to not collect any personal data as no personal data is required to run a forum, add a page explaining so and direct requests to this page.

Post by merinowool » Sat, Jun 02, 2018, 9:56 PM UTC

setquk wrote: post #437

Micrococonut wrote: post #428

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So people shouldn't be allowed to smoke if they want to?

If they want that’s fine but it’s damaging behaviour for society so it will be taxed and/or regulated.