GanstaZ wrote: ↑Sun Apr 22, 2018 3:47 pm
Only minimum amount of people should have access to data (if it's not a firm, then only owner should have that access) & only need to use it when it is required.
Disagree with only the owner having access to it. In the case of our forum, all top-level administrators currently have read access to it. Only a couple people have write access (myself and one other lead administrator). We do this for several reasons. While, yeah, you could argue in our case that we have legitamite interest, in the case of a hobby site/forum/database not dealing with actually sensitive info... it should be up to the owner to delegate who gets access. The whole logic of regulating access based on "need" is stupid too... if they own it/pay for it, they should be able to access it whether they need to or just want to. The government needs to not intervene in these sorts of things. We're not storing CC numbers, not storing SSNs, etc.
Database, server access and local storage (copy, backup) should be secured as highly as possible & that is all.
We store our database backups on Google drive as is. Not something that's going to be changing any time soon. It's easy, convenient for the lead administration team, and free. As far as database server access security - we were planning on upgrading this anyways before GDPR was even a thought (or, well, before we even heard of it), but again. I don't need government telling me what security controls I must have in place at a minimum for a forum.
Here's my issue with all of this. When a house is broken into, we don't go after the homeowner. When a car is broken into, we don't go after the registrant. We go after the person that committed the crime. The criminal. Maybe if the government spent less time legislating against the site owners, and more time figuring out ways to pursue and catch cyber-criminals as opposed to letting them hide and conceal their identities better... maybe then we'd have less of these hacks and data breaches taking place.
Anyways, /rant on that portion of it.
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tojag wrote: ↑Sat Apr 21, 2018 10:20 pm
Please try answer to my question - can I keep post on my forum when user delete account or not? But the first read my previous post
carefully.
Yes, you can.
The GDPR contains six grounds for the basis of refusing the right to erasure, one of which is archiving. You could argue in your policy if you wish to comply with this whole thing, that posts that have been responded to/are past a certain point are retained for archival purposes, and that only you/the forum staff reserves the right to modify posts past that certain point. You could also consider conceivable legitamite interest in doing so. Example:
Poster A:
"I have a tube guitar amp without any speaker cabinet. Can I just turn my amp on?"
Poster B:
"Yes, you will be fine. Though don't know what you plan to achieve without any sound!
"
Poster C:
"NO. DO NOT DO THIS. You will blow your amplifier. You need some form of load on the speaker outputs."
Poster D:
"^ this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is an idiot."
Then, a couple of years later or whatever...
The above scenario then becomes:
Poster A:
"I have a tube guitar amp without any speaker cabinet. Can I just turn my amp on?"
Poster B:
"Yes, you will be fine. Though don't know what you plan to achieve without any sound!
"
Poster D:
"^ this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is an idiot."
And thus, anyone that does a Google search now for this and trusts it is probably now out a considerable amount of money. Those tube amps aren't always cheap, ya know.
As far as checking posts manually, you could argue with the EU that it's too much of a burden. IIRC, that's something that can be considered when dealing with non-compliance cases, according to the ICO.