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Category: Support Forum: Website Support Thread: EU GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation effective May 25, 2018 |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
One for the admin related to hiding statistics and stopping export to statistics sites, will that include not displaying badges on the forums?
(some here measure the right to speak on how big the collection is, sad) Leading by example, Microsoft has committed to make the GDPR a global privacy standard, earning them my thumbs up. |
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jhindo
Former World Community Grid Admin Joined: Aug 25, 2009 Post Count: 250 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
One for the admin related to hiding statistics and stopping export to statistics sites, will that include not displaying badges on the forums? Yes. If you choose to hide your data, this will mean that your badges and country (if you've specified it in your profile) will not be visible in the forums. Thanks, Juan |
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
One for the admin related to hiding statistics and stopping export to statistics sites, will that include not displaying badges on the forums? (some here measure the right to speak on how big the collection is, sad) Leading by example, Microsoft has committed to make the GDPR a global privacy standard, earning them my thumbs up. Some non-WCG projects have minimum level of work needed to post on their forums. |
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Former Member
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Got a mail with a link to a very long mumbo jumbo legalize from Weather Underground. Unbeknownst to me, they are since 2015 an wholly owned IBM company. Since 2004 a registered member there, the long text summed up to: "We'll continue to sell your data. If you don't like it, then get out". I just did, in full. BTW, I was a paying subscriber! I just deleted my account so they not only lost a subscriber but I also had a weather station that was submitting data to the site. They lost that weather data also. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
One for the admin related to hiding statistics and stopping export to statistics sites, will that include not displaying badges on the forums? Yes. If you choose to hide your data, this will mean that your badges and country (if you've specified it in your profile) will not be visible in the forums. Thanks, Juan I assume this would mean the end of my 'Where are you from?' thread and my campain there No more geography .... |
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jhindo
Former World Community Grid Admin Joined: Aug 25, 2009 Post Count: 250 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
little mermaid, the key principle behind these changes is giving volunteers more control over their personal data, how it's used and accessed, etc. So if people are comfortable sharing where they live, they can still do so!
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Former Member
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Thank you, jhindo
- the campaign will go on I presume that you're from the USA, but want to protect your privacy, jhindo |
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Former Member
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Hooray!! The GDPR is now in force. About time!
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Former Member
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Considering folks have had TWO YEARS to prepare for this, it's a complete shambles out there. I rang someone this morning and got the standard "This call may be recorded for security and training purposes" recorded message. When the call was answered the first thing I said was "Please do not record this call." Strangely enough, neither the operator nor their supervisor was aware that their system needed to provide the means to either stop recording, or to delete the existing recording if I request it other than at the start.
----------------------------------------So much for GDPR. [Edited to add:] I hung up. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 25, 2018 4:30:13 PM] |
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Former Member
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... no! NO! NO! NO!
I'll be silent! I will not say it ... I'll swallow those words and have a large low calorie, hot, hot dinner |
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