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GDPR covers personal data -- not content.

by ahje 7y ago

Udik 7y ago
Hm hm, are you sure? And what is the difference between personal data and content? My pictures are pd or content? And if I publish them?
- ahje 7y ago
  Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation#Right_of_access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula... Now, obvliously, the content may contain personal data, or possibly be personal data (if it's pictures of people) and in that case I assume it would be covered.
  - orbat 7y ago
    I'm not convinced your interpretation is correct. GDPR Article 4[1] states that "personal data" means "any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)", so it covers anything you produce that's somehow related to you. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679&from=EN https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
    - ahje 7y ago
      Well, as said, if the content itself can be considered personal data then sure.
      - orbat 7y ago
        My entire point was that "personal data" as defined in Article 4 is any data related to you, not just names, photos and so on
    - type0 7y ago
      In theory even the personal writing style might be considered "personal" as it could be used to identify individuals, but I don't think that lawmakers thought that far.
  - rvschuilenburg 7y ago
    I could be wrong (i'm no expert) but i remember part of the GDPR is about "data portability" and is exactly that: you should easily be able to export all the data you've provided. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/ I would assume this includes articles you've written.
- Radle 7y ago
  Personal data can be used to identify you. Email, Full Name, Address, Nationality, Spoken Languages etc. Some of these are very direct like your name and address. But since other personal data can be combined to create an identifying fingerprint of you it may or may not be covered. There's a gray area in between of course were you really need to check the legal situation, but public content on a public forum is definitely not covered.
  - Udik 7y ago
    I'd say that while a single comment on a forum might not be enough to identify you, the sum of your comments can easily do (because of pieces of personal information you let slip in this or that comment); then everything you write must be considered personal data, unless there is a way to tell apart or remove the personal information from your comments. Think about pictures: the picture of a landscape you took on a holiday doesn't identify you, but other pictures in your library might do (they contain faces, places, etc.). All together, the pictures can tell who you are and where you've been and when and with whom.

GDPR covers personal data -- not content.

by ahje 7y ago

GDPR covers personal data -- not content.

Udik 7y ago

Hm hm, are you sure? And what is the difference between personal data and content? My pictures are pd or content? And if I publish them?

ahje 7y ago
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation#Right_of_access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula... Now, obvliously, the content may contain personal data, or possibly be personal data (if it's pictures of people) and in that case I assume it would be covered.
- orbat 7y ago
  I'm not convinced your interpretation is correct. GDPR Article 4[1] states that "personal data" means "any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)", so it covers anything you produce that's somehow related to you. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679&from=EN https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
  - ahje 7y ago
    Well, as said, if the content itself can be considered personal data then sure.
    - orbat 7y ago
      My entire point was that "personal data" as defined in Article 4 is any data related to you, not just names, photos and so on
  - type0 7y ago
    In theory even the personal writing style might be considered "personal" as it could be used to identify individuals, but I don't think that lawmakers thought that far.
- rvschuilenburg 7y ago
  I could be wrong (i'm no expert) but i remember part of the GDPR is about "data portability" and is exactly that: you should easily be able to export all the data you've provided. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/ I would assume this includes articles you've written.
Radle 7y ago
Personal data can be used to identify you. Email, Full Name, Address, Nationality, Spoken Languages etc. Some of these are very direct like your name and address. But since other personal data can be combined to create an identifying fingerprint of you it may or may not be covered. There's a gray area in between of course were you really need to check the legal situation, but public content on a public forum is definitely not covered.
- Udik 7y ago
  I'd say that while a single comment on a forum might not be enough to identify you, the sum of your comments can easily do (because of pieces of personal information you let slip in this or that comment); then everything you write must be considered personal data, unless there is a way to tell apart or remove the personal information from your comments. Think about pictures: the picture of a landscape you took on a holiday doesn't identify you, but other pictures in your library might do (they contain faces, places, etc.). All together, the pictures can tell who you are and where you've been and when and with whom.