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ITgreybeard
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confused Disambiguation of WCG Policies and Options for Data Protection

I trust - or I at least hope - that when the Data Protection Policies give members the option of "permanently deleting their account and all their data", the data to be deleted are only their personally identifiable data, and that results are not deleted also. N'est-ce pas?

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Re: Disambiguation of WCG Policies and Options for Data Protection

If it would be correctly implemented, the account deletion should cause the replacement of the Global unique Boinc user ID (unique identifier) with a new pseudonymised ID as well as the WCG account ID with an alternate ID. Obviously WCG should not keep the cross information, making possible to re-identify the original user from the pseudonym.
The statistics data should remain available, including for quantifying the contribution to the team, but the data are not related anymore to a specific individual.
Obviously, deleting the account does not impact the science results.

I don't know how the WCG's lawyers did plan the final implementation.
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Re: Disambiguation of WCG Policies and Options for Data Protection

Not sure I agree with the above. If a user wants to be deleted from WCG, they should be Deleted. Don't keep any of their statistical information, even if it means losing team contribution information.
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Re: Disambiguation of WCG Policies and Options for Data Protection

Clearly we don't (yet) know exactly how this will be implemented, but I think Yves' idea is about right. Another option might be to have a "deleted" bucket that the stats get added into, perhaps one at global level and another at team level.
But I think the OP was worried about the scientific data. That is removed from the system fairly smartish and sent to the scientists, and I'm sure that there is no chance that deleting a user would delete any of the associated completed science -- I do not believe that that is associated with users in any way when it is returned to the scientists.
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Re: Disambiguation of WCG Policies and Options for Data Protection

The WU results do not content any privacy relevant member data.
I already thought about a "deleted bucket". It is only a little bit "tricky" to implement since members could have changed the team several times. In this case, an anonymised "membership log" must be maintained, in order to keep the contribution traceability to each team.
Otherwise the contribution to a team is maybe only cumulated on a daily basis and in the case, it is not necessary to keep any traceability information for enabling the correct attribution of the contribution to the corresponding team.
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Re: Disambiguation of WCG Policies and Options for Data Protection

Yves is correct that if a member decides to exercise their right to erasure, or their account is flagged for deletion under our data retention policy, then all the aggregate level statistics are not impacted (e.g. each team would still include in its total contribution stats the contributions of all deleted members), but all the member-level data, including cross-reference IDs, is deleted.

Also, the science data isn't impacted by account deletions because once processed, that data holds no ties back to individual members.

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