Re:Twitter acquires Quill
by jimkleiber on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:00PM
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Hmm, does that violate GDPR? (Assuming a user is European and the law is actually enforced)
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Re:Twitter acquires Quill
by scrollaway on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:15PM
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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.
Sounds like a Quill customer should get their evidence in place because soon they'll be able to sue Twitter instead of Quill.
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
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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
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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.