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I think Edukator spent literally months hounding Mark both on and off the forum to delete all of his posts.
Mark stood his ground and Edukator(troll) is still mostly here.
[i]demonstrate a lawful reason to be holding any data about us for business purposes[/i]
I can't see that forum posts you've made are 'about you' in the sense of data collected via forms/phone calls/etc etc would be for a standard business. They've effectively published your posts, not 'collected' data about you for business purposes?
I also thought the right to be forgotten only applied to search engines, not the source websites (news sites etc) that people might not want found in a search?
August 2005. Basically when I started cycling. I'd forgotten what the forum used to look like but it was handy being able to set the colours to "work safe mode". I can't imagine that ever being an option again 🙂
I can't see that forum posts you've made are 'about you' in the sense of data collected via forms/phone calls/etc etc would be for a standard business. They've effectively published your posts, not 'collected' data about you for business purposes?I also thought the right to be forgotten only applied to search engines, not the source websites (news sites etc) that people might not want found in a search?
Apparantly not. My forum name is linked to my personal details at STW towers and is therefore about me. I have a right to see it all deleted. STW are responsible for its storage, whether I gave it voluntary or not. I'm not legal but I'm guessing the counter arguement is that as a paying member an user of the forum the data is currently stored legally so that we may transact business together - e.g. pay/collect my membership. However if I stopped my membership its a different story. Is my interpretation until corrected anyway...
Isn't the GDPR an EU thing?
[i]My forum name is linked to my personal details[/i]
so remove the link and keep the forum posts is ok then?
Scotroute - no its accepted as international law by the UK an therefore applies after brexit.
Wwaswas- only if the Information Commision cant prove you edited the data or systems to perform fraud, or as the op i cant prove an electronic audit trail to my posting history from my ip or device durimg my lawsuit, then yes its fine.
I will add at this point im not expert or lawyer im just regurgitating my opinion based on what i learned yesterday.
Even the expert said yesterday that GDPR was like opening a can of worms to fond it contained many thousands of cans of worms
I can't see that forum posts you've made are 'about you' in the sense of data collected via forms/phone calls/etc etc would be for a standard business. They've effectively published your posts, not 'collected' data about you for business purposes?
That's how I'd interpret it.
You have the "right to be forgotten" in terms of [b]personal[/b] data - so an ex-subscriber could rightly ask for their name, address, payment details to be deleted. The posts you make on the forum are not personal data, they're in the public domain. Even if STW were to remove every post you made the genie's out of the bottle; how would you go about having them removed from the Wayback Machine, Google search results, quoted posts...? It's just not feasible.
Let me give you an analogy. You write an article for a newspaper and it gets published. Later you change your mind and demand they remove your details. They delete your address from their contributors database; would you then expect them to go round to everyone who's bought a copy demanding it back?