Would GDPR still apply if discord stored all personal data on other p2p clients?
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
#202Sorry 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.
In any case, 800k is a ridiculous amount for such a huge company like Discord.
Where do you find their revenue stream data?
Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR
#203Would GDPR still apply if discord stored all personal data on other p2p clients?
Yes. GDPR is not focused on storage only, but on data handling as a whole. No matter where the data is stored, it's still collected and handled by Discord, thus they are responsible for what they do with it.
Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does this work for IRC networks?
IRC network is simply a relay. It doesn't have anything to delete begin with.
True, though the "owners" (what's the term I'm looking for here?) of some channels do public logging
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
isn't that the case for gmail? if you send me an email with a picture in it, then delete your email account, i can still see your email when logging into my gmail
No. Email is private messaging. If you send email to me and then delete it in your end, I'm allowed to store your email as a whole (sometimes legally obliged).
And if I send an email to 200 recipients they can all store it, I don’t see the fundamental difference for discord TBH
Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR
#206Sorry 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.
In any case, 800k is a ridiculous amount for such a huge company like Discord.
They’ve probably never made any money.
Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
if they want it to work as you posit, they should not save all the date in Discords systems, but create a distributed chat system.
What’s the difference between Discord and two Gmail users communicating? The data is all on Google’s servers. If we work on a Google Doc together should deleting your account delete my document as well? They’re both on Google’s servers and on the backend we don’t have separate copies.
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Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
Importantly, Teams will leave a meeting if you exit the Meeting window. Keeping the meeting going in the background is honestly pretty crazy.
Its by-design, so you can voice with people while playing multiplayer games.
You can play multiplayer games with a window open though (as long as it doesn't try to stay in front of your game), right?
Re: Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR
#209yawn Wake me up when they start imposing €800k fines on businesses that can't afford to pay. Right now, GDPR feels like a way to shake down large businesses for free money, not a serious law they want to impose for principled reasons.
Discord fixed the issues so it works. I don't see the point of bigger fines unless the issues don't get fixed.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> against its own culture Could you elaborate what that culture is supposed to be exactly, and why it should require us to side with Discord here?
Probably means moralless pursuit of the almighty dollar. There seems to be a sizable chunk of hustlers on HN, who have some tiny dropshipping, newsletter or spam business that depends on invasive tracking, dark patterns and other amoral behavior, and they get scared and feel existentially threatened every time GDPR is brought up. It seems to be the same group of people who believe that the Internet would die without advertising, as if the whole Internet consisted of SEO spam only.