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This must be a GDPR thing, right? Discord recently received a big fine for not deleting accounts after a period of inactivity.
by rozab 3y ago
This must be a GDPR thing, right? Discord recently received a big fine for not deleting accounts after a period of inactivity.
- pixelfarmer 3y agoThis looks like some regulatory induced certification bureaucraziness stunt that creates all sorts of funky stuff already within such megacorpos. Because time is money, the solution is usually the one they can take with the least resistance. Consequences down the line are an afterthought, and I'd bet someone mentioned that this would cause problems and it got waved away for not being important / other solution(s) being too expensive, this sort of thing, as usual.
- Anthony-G 3y agoThey could be using GDPR as an excuse to do this. Or, to be more charitable, their legal people have been reading FUD about the GDPR rather than the actual regulations. GDPR has plenty of provision for legitimate interests, particularly in favour of the data subject: https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/legitimate-interest/ https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/legitimat...
- cccbbbaaa 3y agoLegitimate interest is the most fragile basis in GDPR and should not be relied upon, apart for server logs as suggested by recital 49. Contract (art. 6(1)b) may be better here, but keep in mind that art. 5(1)e still applies.