Opt-in can be (and usually is) a one-time event.
And if you look at the new terms of service for the big platforms, they updated them recently.
Cubicle 7 forums to close due to EU data law
Opt-in can be (and usually is) a one-time event.
And if you look at the new terms of service for the big platforms, they updated them recently.
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)
A long time ago I recall some guy left EnWorld and demanded that Morrus remove all his posts. Which was a laughable demand of course - he had hundreds and hundreds of them and each needed to be remove by hand. He started to do it himself (or maybe he completed that).
Strangely, I think under this new law if a user demanded that all their posts be removed...they would in fact have that right under this law, and the owner of the site would have to comply or face a regulatory violate.
Which is silly. But my admittedly brief read of the legal summaries I am seeing on this law would lead to that conclusion.
Strangely, I think under this new law if a user demanded that all their posts be removed...they would in fact have that right under this law, and the owner of the site would have to comply or face a regulatory violate.
Which is silly. But my admittedly brief read of the legal summaries I am seeing on this law would lead to that conclusion.
Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
I am still wondering why they used the excuse of this new data law in the EU. They could have just done like WotC did and simply said they did not have the time/manpower/desire/whatever to maintain their forums. I also wonder if the impending crush of new users/data/etc that would have hit if they had added official WFRP forums, as they were asked for by many, would have done to their ability to maintain and moderate their forums. I would not be surprised if the number of people who would have signed up just for that would have equaled of exceeded the current number of registered users.
I ensured we were OK for GDPR months ago. For a message board like this, it's not a very onerous task. We collect almost zero user data here (username, email, IP, basically) and it isn't shared anywhere. And yep, the functionality to delete an account is present if it becomes needed. We're good.
If anybody from C7's forums comes over here, they're very welcome, of course. Heck, if there was a demand for it, I'd create an emergency subform for them like I did for WotC.
If anybody from C7's forums comes over here, they're very welcome, of course. Heck, if there was a demand for it, I'd create an emergency subform for them like I did for WotC.
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Guest 6801328
Guest
Annnnnnd....that's it. C7 forums are gone.
:-(
:-(
I figured - just couldn't remember getting another notification (which, perversely, seems to be required even for people who've opted in before).
How did you deal with the data portability requirements? Does vBulletin allow for exports/dumps? I'm keen to understand how others are dealing with the same hurdles.
tomBitonti
Adventurer
(Any lawyers out there who could summarize the major provisions of the GDPR? I've taken a short course in what the GDPR means, but I'm not a lawyer and don't think I could adequately summarize what is in the law. There a probably lots of folks here who have only just heard about the law, or who have not learned about it in detail, who would well receive such a summary.)
Wouldn't user posts be of a different category than user personal information? GDPR is about collecting personal data. (I thought that posts were more like "letters to the editor" as far as how they are handled legally.)
I don't think a one time "opt-in" works. Before personal information can be collected, the user must be supplied with certain information, including a precise statement of what data is being collected and how it will be used. Any change to that requires a new opt in.
One thing about GDPR is that it is viral: If you (as a company holding personal data) are requested to remove data, you must pass along that request to other companies to whom the data was given.
I was just reading that countries outside of the EU may take up GDPR, or substantial subsets thereof, as their data policy. A collision between policies as reflected in the GDPR and US policies seems inevitable ...
Thx!
TomB
Wouldn't user posts be of a different category than user personal information? GDPR is about collecting personal data. (I thought that posts were more like "letters to the editor" as far as how they are handled legally.)
I don't think a one time "opt-in" works. Before personal information can be collected, the user must be supplied with certain information, including a precise statement of what data is being collected and how it will be used. Any change to that requires a new opt in.
One thing about GDPR is that it is viral: If you (as a company holding personal data) are requested to remove data, you must pass along that request to other companies to whom the data was given.
I was just reading that countries outside of the EU may take up GDPR, or substantial subsets thereof, as their data policy. A collision between policies as reflected in the GDPR and US policies seems inevitable ...
Thx!
TomB
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