Sorry, but this is just completely false. I hate this law, and have no plans on complying it with data collected before our geoblock, but it doesn't go that far.
Sorry, but this is just completely false. I hate this law, and have no plans on complying it with data collected before our geoblock, but it doesn't go that far.
Smells like childish act. People are getting lazy you really think someone would bother doing that? GDPR police can punish an owner if something is really wrong & same goes for registered user/guest/one that wants to be forgotten.If I could edit my posts and know that the forum owner does not delete them, I would edit them all by typing 'bla bla'.
Even on this forum you can find users who wanted to cancel your account and delete posts and wrote about it in public. Up to now there was no opportunity, and how will it be now when they call on GDPR? After all, this forum is purely technical, but there are forums on which people are written about people, their hobbies, their health, their behaviors, etc. My forum is like that, so I have concerns. You can create pretty good personal profits from the posts. Someone writes that email address encryption is unnecessary, and if you link an address to such a profile, you can target your ads very accurately. This is profiling strictly described in GDPR. Of course, it would be illegal for someone to gain access to the database and use it to send profile-based emails.maxrpg wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:49 pm To be fair I personally don't think many (if any) forum users would use the "right to be forgotten". I can see it happening on e-commerce sites or facebook/twitter/google etc but for most of us who just run a forum with no really private information about its users I would be surprised if those users suddenly decided they want all their stuff deleting.
I think in the 8+ years that my site has been active I've only had 2-3 users ask me to delete their account (for various reasons) which I complied with and their posts were kept.
A lot would have to be done in the source code to be compliant. But again, this should all be left to an optional extension that's off by default.Lumpy Burgertushie wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 7:11 pm assuming that you are in the EU you would need to contact someone who is an expert on this new law in the EU.
phpbb may or may not have to make any changes in order to be in compliance.
if you are not in the EU then you simply do not have to worry about it in my opinion.
robert
Now you’re talking and, maybe, it’ll all go the way of the cookie law, in to history.
True, the Cookie Law turned into a requirement for a simple message to users basically saying "It's a website, so it uses cookies, duh. Now get over it". I think this one will have more teeth when it comes to personal data loss through hacks though.
I believe that policing it will be the same as now with Data Protection, it will be policed by the ICO - in other words they will only respond if a complaint is made.
You are missing the point.ajtruckle wrote: ↑Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:28 am As a user of your forum I am asking for your "thumbs up" that my forum is not going to be an issue. If you have doubts or reservations about saying yes, then somethign should be investigated. After all, you don't want someone to stamp down on you as a company provided the forum to be used but no GPDR compliancy tools of any kind.