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There are different levels of publicly-available information. I have a stalker. I know her well enough to keep myself safe. I don't take measures which would d

by blagie 4y ago

There are different levels of publicly-available information. I have a stalker. I know her well enough to keep myself safe. I don't take measures which would deter a marketing company or a government, but enough to deter her. It's a lot easier to live with some "soft" measures than with "hard" measures. When "public" information is aggregated and posted online, it does cause problems for people like me.

that_guy_iain 4y ago
I am not saying it's not a pain. But what I am saying, is scraping the internet and displaying the data you gathered is not a breach of GDPR. If in doubt, go look at Google. Constantly fined billions by the EU. Not once have they been fined for displaying personal information in their Google search results. Not liking something is fair enough. Not liking something and then saying it's breaching GDPR because they used public information isn't the same.
- blagie 4y ago
  It depends. Google has tools: https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?... GDPR grants a right-to-be-forgotten. It's not a proactive right; you need to make a request.
  - that_guy_iain 4y ago
    Right to be forgotten, isn't GDPR, and it only affects results within the EU.
    - jhgb 4y ago
      > Right to be forgotten, isn't GDPR https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/: "Art. 17 GDPR Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten')" ...seems like it is?
      - that_guy_iain 4y ago
        Right to be forgotten is older than GDPR. They might have included it as part of the new law. But overall the right to be forgotten is older than GDPR. But that link is not an offical source and has right to be forgotten in brackets as the actual right is the right to have data deleted. And the main part is that it only affects data within the EU. Google can still process your data and even clearly tells you that they still have the data when they show you a link at the bottom of the search result that they removed results. Edit: Wikipedia has "The right to be forgotten was replaced by a more limited right to erasure in the version of the GDPR adopted by the European Parliament in March 2014."
    - blagie 4y ago
      There are analogues for minors across the US (COPPA), in many other jurisdictions (e.g. CCPA), etc. GDPR, as a human rights law, tends to have far-reaching claws too. Enforcement is sporadic, but that may change.

by blagie 4y ago

that_guy_iain 4y ago

I am not saying it's not a pain. But what I am saying, is scraping the internet and displaying the data you gathered is not a breach of GDPR. If in doubt, go look at Google. Constantly fined billions by the EU. Not once have they been fined for displaying personal information in their Google search results. Not liking something is fair enough. Not liking something and then saying it's breaching GDPR because they used public information isn't the same.

blagie 4y ago
It depends. Google has tools: https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?... GDPR grants a right-to-be-forgotten. It's not a proactive right; you need to make a request.
- that_guy_iain 4y ago
  Right to be forgotten, isn't GDPR, and it only affects results within the EU.
  - jhgb 4y ago
    > Right to be forgotten, isn't GDPR https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/: "Art. 17 GDPR Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten')" ...seems like it is?
    - that_guy_iain 4y ago
      Right to be forgotten is older than GDPR. They might have included it as part of the new law. But overall the right to be forgotten is older than GDPR. But that link is not an offical source and has right to be forgotten in brackets as the actual right is the right to have data deleted. And the main part is that it only affects data within the EU. Google can still process your data and even clearly tells you that they still have the data when they show you a link at the bottom of the search result that they removed results. Edit: Wikipedia has "The right to be forgotten was replaced by a more limited right to erasure in the version of the GDPR adopted by the European Parliament in March 2014."
  - blagie 4y ago
    There are analogues for minors across the US (COPPA), in many other jurisdictions (e.g. CCPA), etc. GDPR, as a human rights law, tends to have far-reaching claws too. Enforcement is sporadic, but that may change.