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Contact your local data protection authority
by xena 4y ago
Contact your local data protection authority
- yosito 4y agoI had trouble getting Discord to respect the law regarding automated account termination. I contacted my local data protection authorities and then contacted Discord through several channels and informed them that I had contacted the authorities. Within a day, they reinstated my account without a word.
- zelphirkalt 4y agoThat is the default now for big companies, it seems. They think they are invincible, and that one measly user cannot harm them. You have to basically threaten them to get them in legal trouble with a bigger player like the EU, so that they listen. This is because all their incentives are tied to profit, instead of ethics of freedom and consent. Unless you have something, that could harm their profit, they will try to abuse you.
- msoucy 4y agoThey wouldn't even tell me what I had supposedly done wrong when they terminated my account, and said that they investigated the claim and upheld the termination... That is, when they eventually responded. I had to make a new account and set all the servers and such back up.
- btdmaster 4y agoThank you for the suggestion, I have already done this as soon as I could (late March) and they have not yet responded either.
- ericmcer 4y agoI had a similar experience with California prop 65 (requires business to add a label to products that contain carcinogens). The business itself was way more responsive than the government agency, nothing happened but it was surprising that even handed a trove of evidence & emails about a clear food safety violation they didn't really do anything. Well I guess not surprising haha.
- nonameiguess 4y agoNot really surprising at all. It's incredibly common for legislatures to pass laws requiring something that would take resources to enforce, but not budgeting for those enforcement resources. It's called an unfunded mandate.
- User23 4y agoMy experience is that vague prop 65 warnings just ended up on virtually everything. I guess the CA legislature tried to address that, but I don't live in California so I have no idea how much improvement there's been, if any.
- rkangel 4y agoI assume you're in Calif based on the above? The ICO in the UK is usually pretty good if you report.
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- natly 4y agoI suspect getting the word out on here etc is much more effective than any effort they're likely to put into it if you did.