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Re:Twitter acquires Quill by jimkleiber on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:00PM (#29475039)
Hmm, does that violate GDPR? (Assuming a user is European and the law is actually enforced)
Re:Twitter acquires Quill by scrollaway on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:15PM (#29475269)
Yes it does. You don’t necessarily have a right to the other side of the conversation, but your messages are your own data and you have a right to export them.

That said, gdpr is untested in the context of data being deleted before it can be retrieved.

Re:Twitter acquires Quill by spoonjim on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:27PM (#29475457)
Sounds like a Quill customer should get their evidence in place because soon they'll be able to sue Twitter instead of Quill.
Re:Twitter acquires Quill by Macha on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:59PM (#29475916)
Is it? The intent is to give the user access to data the company holds on them - it's not to make companies retain data indefinitely.
Re:Twitter acquires Quill by jimkleiber on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:39PM (#29477913)
Oh I was thinking more about the inability to export, or related to the data portability aspect, but I also don't have a very deep understanding of GDPR.
Re:Twitter acquires Quill by jimkleiber on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:46PM (#29475743)
Yea, I think GDPR is a bit of "national government trying to govern international commerce" and not doing it very well, yet it's still at least there in theory.

Thanks for clarifying that for me.