maccruisekeen,
I think that may give Gofar a reasonable argument not to bother (although the information being publicly available elsewhere isn’t an excuse AFAIR). The owner of the data would have to approach each web archive (and there are several - some outside EU reach) and ask to be deleted, and I think the archive excuse is potentially all the stronger if that is your primary function. Morevover they are likely to have much higher motivation (and possibly funds) to fight a case in the courts.
As we continue to discuss a topic that we've now established has nothing to do with the the OP's clarified question... I'm beginning to regret previously posting
If you remove one contributors contributions retrospectively then many the threads they’ve been a part of make no sense.
Looks like deleting from all of the internet will be a chore 🙂
Yes I could just log out and never come back, but I want to close the account and remove the possibility of logging in.
Just wondering what someone’s said to provoke that sort of desire. It’s just a forum, it’s not Fb, or Twitter or Netflix, I really can’t see why anyone would want to go that far; just walk away and don’t look back. Some may wonder what happened to cookiemonster27, but I’d hazard a guess nobody would notice or give a shit.
I haven’t been on Fb for around four months, I may/may not go back, but I really can’t be arsed to delete my account, anything I’ve posted in the past can stay there ‘til the death of the universe for all I care.
Well that was all very dramatic.
As confrontational as ever, Drac. It doesn't help. Another screenshot in the archive.
GDPR is about personal data - anyone's posts are NOT personal data. The username may or may not be personal data - I suspect we are going to have to wait for the ICO to clarify that. Your personal data is your name, contact information that you have supplied to STW (or Gofar) when registering on the website. You can ask for that to be deleted. If I understand correctly, STW could decide to change your username to a generic account name if you left and leave all the posts.
(Note also that the forum and subscription to the magazine are different things and should be treated differently.)
STW could decide to change your username to a generic account name if you left and leave all the posts
I think making the user name anonymous would satisfy most people but as I read it if the contents of any post allows your identification directly or indirectly then you could insist that be removed too.
Drac has an extemely conflictual relationship with some members, check out Teasel's last five posts on the sponge thread, they're still there which is good as they weren't censored. I think a court might be sympathetic to someone victimised and provoked by a forum moderator requesting the removal of the totality of their posting history. Just an opinion of course but Google is now restrained by a number of principles which include dereferencing stuff after a period of time if requested to do so.
Things will become clearer when requests go in as of 25/5/2018 from people feeling aggrieved if they feel so inclined. I think most have the good sense to just stop posting but you never know and there's no point grutuitously winding people up eh, Drac. I think the new directives change the balance of power between users and providers, time will tell where that leads us.
Drac has an extemely conflictual relationship
Do I?
lol well incomplete or selective quoting isn't the best way to answer that now is it....
Ooops! Copy fail.
Just to clear everything up before my account is hopefully closed and brings all this to a close.
1. No one had said anything to warrant this, I just wish to close the account.
2. Yes I could just log out, but I'd like to close the account down. Singletrack isnt the only place I'm doing this so don't feel offended / picked on / happy etc, none of this is personal, I'm just decluttering my digital life so I can focus on other things.
3. I've emailed Singletrack in an attempt to get this sorted as was suggested by one user as per the T&C's which I missed.
4. GDPR was never an issue here, nor a concern, the posts can stay if they have to, i've nothing to hid, I just wish to close the account.
5. So long and thanks for all the fish.
6. Should all this fail, I will just log out and leave it alone.
It’s the Tech guys who deal with clearing your email and what have Cookie so it’ll tomorrow at the earliest before you get a response.
A couple of points here.
I know it's not what you asked for, but as others have said no-one is going to have their posting history removed (we've been asked for this before). It should be immediately apparent as to why - it'd be an act of gross vandalism.
If you want to render your account inaccessible, STW can scramble your password, and optionally scramble your email address making a password recovery impossible. You'll have to email tech@ for this, the moderators can't do it. What we can do, if you like, is simply give you a lifetime ban. Not that I'm sure what this gains, there's nothing to stop you from creating a new account, but if you'd like me to do that then let me know (either here or at the moderator@ email address).
The GDPR's "right to be forgotten" is a misnomer, it's the "right of erasure" and refers to companies processing personal data. There's an argument that a username could be seen as personal data, but it's not data which has been collected for any sort of processing and in any case hasn't been solicited privately, it's in the public domain. It's easy to see how someone's real name, physical address and credit card details given for a magazine subscription would be considered personal data which an individual is within their rights to be asked to be erased, but less so with a username on a public forum IMHO.
In any case, all the armchair experts in the world can't say for sure yet how the GDPR is going to work in practice. English law is essentially whataboutery which is then tested in court to set precedences, and of course that's not happened yet. It's going to take a legal test case for anyone to be certain about how it applies to things like public mountain biking forums, but from what I've read it does seem to me that this is outside of the 'spirit' of the legislation.
How come he got fish? I didn't get fish.
GDPR is about personal data – anyone’s posts are NOT personal data.
They are if the contents allow the person to be identified.
