Re:Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)
by bo1024 on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:36PM
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Yeah that's an interesting question about the line for GDPR and the right to be forgotten. If a user themself posts text onto a forum, I wouldn't consider that private information. If it's not private info, I wouldn't think they should be able to legally request it be deleted. That would be almost like an editor of a wikipedia article asking that it be removed. I wonder how GDPR applies.
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Actually text posts can be used to personally identify users, given you have access to enough written words from this person to build a profile of their writing style.
It's been used to track and identify people. IIRC it's also been used in attempts to impersonate people.
So one can argue that text posts are personal data that can be used to identify them, but I suppose this is the kind of thing that is up to the court to decide.
Re:Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)
by LoSboccacc on Saturday June 02, 2018 @04:06AM
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Gdpr doesn’t have a clause for voluntary, required or accidental sharing.
If a user publishes on your forum he has disabilities, congratulations, under gdpr you just leaked user personal data of the worst kind.
> If a user publishes on your forum he has disabilities, congratulations, under gdpr you just leaked user personal data of the worst kind.
I'm really not sure what people think they're gaining from posting these wildly inaccurate GDPR comments.
I agree, the amount of FUD and fearmongering related to GDPR is quite impressive, even here on HN. It seems people who don't like GDPR are trying their best to make it look diabolical as if this would make it go away.
No, you do what's necessary to fullfill the service you provide to the user: they wanted to publish a forum post, you store and publish the submitted data as is necessary to offer this. That's neither a leak nor forbidden.