Cubicle 7 forums to close due to EU data law

[Morrus]

There’s a few decent articles out there which summarise it for the layman. The general consensus is that pseudominized forum posts (username removed) do not generally qualify as personally identifiable data under the GDPR, although some individual posts where a user includes biographical data can be. That will be put to the test by some future case, I’m sure.

Obviously IP addresses and email addresses are, as are usernames. Most profile information is. But all that is super easy to handle.

GDPR covers a whole range of things. Not all of those things will apply to every organisation. For a forum, compliance is pretty easy. Once you start running a storefront etc. it becomes a bit harder. And if you’re a social network which tracks and records all sorts of stuff about you, there’s lots of stuff you need to do.

 

[PaulofCthulhu]

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[Bluenose]

Someone has created a fan forum here. Looks quite like the original C7 forums, though there's not many users or posts yet.

 

[Yaarel]

This is why so many internet sites and companies have been hitting us this month with updated privacy policies to agree to.

To be honest, I thank Europe for that. I doubt the US would aggressively defend privacy in this way.

 

[Yaarel]

Non-compliance is also not the end of the world. Max financial penalty is based on 4% of global revenue (with a cap).

So wealthy corporations can continue to violate privacy?

 

[Morrus]

So wealthy corporations can continue to violate privacy?

It’s 4% global revenue or 20m Euros, whichever is higher. There’s no cap. Note that’s the max penalty, not a mandatory penalty.

 

[Enkhidu]

It’s 4% global revenue or 20m Euros, whichever is higher. There’s no cap. Note that’s the max penalty, not a mandatory penalty.

Ach! I had that reversed. Obviously I need to check with our compliance officer.

 

[Morrus]

Yep - enough to really hurt small and mid-sized companies, and do nothing to the big ones.

4% of Facebook’s global revenue doesn’t means nothing to it. It’s stock value plummets for much smaller fluctuations. It hits big multinationals hard.

I'll be interested in seeing how its applied - my guess is that its mostly bluster from the EU.

The major global megacorps aren’t dismissing it as “bluster”. It was announced two years ago. It’s not a new thing, despite the last minute panic. It’s not bluster; it will be enforced if companies operate within the EU. The EU has always been strict on data protection (one reason it was always hard to export data to US companies which didn’t have adequate protection).

 

[Enkhidu]

4% of Facebook’s global revenue doesn’t means nothing to it. It’s stock value plummets for much smaller fluctuations. It hits big multinationals hard.




The major global megacorps aren’t dismissing it as “bluster”. It was announced two years ago. It’s not a new thing, despite the last minute panic. It’s not bluster; it will be enforced if companies operate within the EU. The EU has always been strict on data protection (one reason it was always hard to export data to US companies which didn’t have adequate protection).

That's why I edited my post (which was in response to me mis-reading yours). I initially thought it was "whichever is lesser" rather than "whichever is greater.

 

[Sunseeker]

So wealthy corporations can continue to violate privacy?

What else is new?