Folks, please do delete your X accounts, by all means, but I’d be very surprised if that meant that your data is deleted or that Elon Musk won’t be using it to train his AI, etc.
I put in a data deletion request after deactivating my account in 2022 and set the Irish DPC on them when they didn’t. After several back and forths, with the Irish DPC being less than worthless, I gave up. Afaict, there is zero enforcement of GDPR Article 17.
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Nicovel0
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#altText #mastodon
Thaha Jemni
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Dźwiedziu
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Okay, this motivated me to start the download, clean, delete process.
@noybeu
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Specifically, as far as the Irish DPC was concerned, “all data associated with the account being rendered unavailable through Twitter’s production tools” was enough for them to consider Twitter’s obligations under GDPR Article 17 to be fulfilled and for the complaint to be “amicably resolved.”
At this point we’d had several back-and-forths and I decided it wasn’t worth my time to pursue it further given the Irish DPC’s clear lack of desire to enforce GDPR Article 17.
Aral Balkan
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Rodrigo Pio
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •That strategy seems to be working pretty well for training data too (their gain, everyone else's loss).
Urzl
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in reply to arestelle • • •Lorna Woods
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Samuel Hautamäki
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Looks like your Data Protection Authority handled your complaint incorrectly.
You can take legal action against the Irish DPC.
commission.europa.eu/law/law-t…
What should I do if I think that my personal data protection rights haven’t been respected?
European CommissionAral Balkan
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •#1 Weird Trick To End Tinnitus This Thanksgiving In Just 30 Seconds A Day
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Stéphane Bortzmeyer
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in reply to Stéphane Bortzmeyer • • •F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Paguro
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •This applies to 99% of companies:
#GDPR "forget me" request sent.
#DPO looks at it, tells IT guys to run the deletion
IT guys couldn't care less, wait a couple hours, go buy beers, get back and send ok email to DPO
DPO mails you "we've deleted your data"
The problem lies in #trust. And lies create a trust problem.
Jeremy Burgess
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •"While we are working to improve our removal processes, users may continue to request the deletion of specific data by contacting Twitter through a number of mechanisms and submitting a deletion request."
I'll bet that most/all mechanisms require that you are an active Twitter user. 🤦
Angie Taylor
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in reply to Angie Taylor • • •@angietaylor God* only knows. It’s a black box.
* Elon
Angie Taylor
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •udo m. rader ☕ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🐧
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Alex
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I mean we are all equal before the law, but some are more equal.
If you start collecting private data, that’s against the GDPR, if they do, that’s ok.
If you scrape the web that’s illegal and you may not do this because it’s their data. If they scrape the web to train AI, that’s ok.
FrankieBeast
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Harald Hannelius :verified:
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I used a script to delete all my tweets. Requested a new datadump afterwards and it was the same size. Also the counter on my profile is the same.
Really bad if the Irish didn't require Twitter to follow the law.
Brokar
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Well, i guess you had your data exported before deactivation. Why not send a separate email for every post you made, asking them to delete the 'specific data', namely the post?
I think everybody should do that after deletion. See if they react a little more forthcoming when the inbox gets flooded. And why do they think that article 17 doesn't apply to them? The only loophole i see is that they call on article 17 p.3d, for archieving purposes. But that would be a stretch before court.
Aral Balkan
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in reply to CyberFrog • • •John Kjorstad
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@noybeu
When you can't delete your data you should overload it.
Instead of just deleting the account post nonsense.
On the one hand all data will train AI or they will be deleted because of nonsense.
You want to hide your address? Add more.
After all it's still unbelievable undemocratic how the Irish DCP blocks out European Standards. And unbelievable that @EUCommission does nothing for years.