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Just to be clear, getting banned from a slack got you mad enough to spend weeks (?) arguing with some random guy over email about GDPR - all because you despera
by rikafurude21 2y ago
Just to be clear, getting banned from a slack got you mad enough to spend weeks (?) arguing with some random guy over email about GDPR - all because you desperately need to know what was said about you in a groupchat? And then you write an article about your experience to get sympathy on HN?
- blue_cookeh 2y agoAn operation as large as Wordpress.com or .org should be GDPR compliant. I don't see any cry for sympathy here but more that OP is holding someone to a baseline standard expected of entities operating in Europe.
- dspillett 2y agoIf it isn't a cry for sympathy, it is almost certainly a bitter attempt to cause grief in revenge. I'm definitely thinking the latter rather than the former. But neither of those things are mutually exclusive with each other or holding a company to account to relevant standards. It isn't wrong to hold them to the standard, of course, but to claim that is only what is happening would be rather disingenuous (unless the author has a track record of defending people against transgressions of those standards when they themselves do not have something petty to be petty about in return).
- edent 2y agoBasically, yeah.
- crusty 2y agoI didn't get that vibe. Making the GDPR request is like exercising a muscle - use it, or lose it, so to speak. If organizations aren't challenged to be compliant, they won't ever be. So this read to me more of an opportunity to press that. This really seems like a story about GDPR adherence at a company that has been considered relatively user-aligned (and what that might suggest about the operation in general) told as an anecdoprolonged. Instigating prologue. It's missing the ad hominem harpiness that would suggest your version.