Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.

• SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The GDPR applies to data pertaining to an identifiable person. Anonymised data is more or less equivalent to deleted data as far as the regulation is concerned. Source: I was a DPO for 5 years.

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  • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh, I see. Indeed anonymised data should be fine under GDPR. However it is often very difficult to anonymise data. Some things are easy to anonymise, other are very complex.

    For a small company who does not mainly work with data, the easiest solution to comply with GDPR is indeed just deleting the data altogether.

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    • SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, there a concept of “pseudonymous” data in some of the guidance, which refers to anonymous data which, when taken together, could identify person - even if some of that data is not held by the data controller. Under those circumstances seemingly anonymous data can fall under the regulation although most companies are very unlikely to consider such nuance in their data policies.

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• manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The org i used to work for had to develop a special process to delete user data upon request, it was not an easy process in dynamics365

  if you want something deleted you best destroy the hard disk yourself lol

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The requirement exists unless the company is under legal obligation to retain something. I had one case where I requested a GDPR data dump followed by a full deletion, and apparently whoever executed the request deleted first and then processed the dump, so I was able to see that what they did was change my email address from username@mail.tld to username#mail.tld@company.tld - meaning that login attempts, password resets etc. would clearly fail, and a further attempt to request my data revolving around my email address would be unsuccessful, but ultimately all my data was still accessible somewhere. Whether they’d then proceed to delete it after the retention period, who knows. I intended to follow up but forgot…

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• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s no independent audit for GDPR compliance so the only way to know would be if someone whistleblows. There are also so many loopholes that allows to keep the data like “to prevent further abuse” or “some legal reason”.

  So if reddit bans your account they can keep all data and you can’t do anything about it even with GDPR.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t GDPR deletion requests only require deleting personal data, and not public posts?

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  • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you advising breaking the law just because nobody checks?

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m saying corporations break the law if nobody checks - why wouldn’t they?

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      • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That happens. Still, many companies do not. Some companies are unaware of the legislation.

        I was informing one worker of a company of one such law.

        Many companies do not break the law even though there are no controls just because that is the right thing to do.

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