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Slack is worse. If you don't pay, not only do they not give you access to >10k messages, but they still store those messages and don't allow you to do things li
by james_pm 6y ago
Slack is worse. If you don't pay, not only do they not give you access to >10k messages, but they still store those messages and don't allow you to do things like delete them.
- Hamuko 6y ago>and don't allow you to do things like delete them. How does that work with GDPR?
- Turbots 6y agoIt doesn't. Big companies who want to be gdpr compliant buy enterprise Slack and force slack to store the data in European datacenters. Slack doesn't give a shit about gdpr if you're not paying
- nicoburns 6y agoDoesn't that make Slack themselves non-compliant?
- smueller1234 6y agoIt probably does. But it requires someone to pick the battle (a customer or an enforcement agency on their own) to get it enforced.
- detaro 6y agoDepends: Do they not delete the data if you explicitly contact them and tell them to do it, or do they just not give you a convenient button in the UI?
- krrrh 6y agoI never really thought about it before, but the non-deletion might offer Sarbanes-Oxley protection which could lead to publicly traded companies being more tolerant of teams using slack without clearing it through central IT.