Questions tagged [gdpr]
For questions about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, an EU privacy law) related to Stack Exchange. Do not ask questions about GDPR in general.
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Can the "Right to be forgotten" and a LLM "non-negotiable attribution" be reconciled? Do they need to?
I was trying to make sense of the impact of the GDPR "Right to be forgotten" rules in accordance to the growing number of LLM partnership the network is announcing lately.
The data subject ...
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GDPR deletion form is unintuitive
One would assume that a user who's going to be deleting their account completely and irrevocably network-wide would be unimpressed with dark patterns.
I was looking up the GDPR deletion page to point ...
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German localisation of policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request contains 2 paragraphs in Dutch and 1 heading in English
The German localisation of https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request contains 2 paragraphs in Dutch and 1 heading in English:
First reported by @Bergi in this comment: Upcoming privacy updates: ...
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Can I get statistics about my posts (such as views or votes) via a GDPR "Export my data" request?
I asked a question here about how to get data on my Q&A. The question was closed as being a duplicate of another question. That question is very different from mine, since it was asking for the ...
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We've updated the Data Subject Rights (DSR) request page
We’ve updated the Data Request page to use a native solution from our consent provider, OneTrust.
What is changing?
Data Subject Rights (DSR) requests, as a part of Stack Overflow’s global privacy ...
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How do I permanently set my cookie preferences?
I visit Stack Overflow on my phone several times a week, and it seems like about once a week (maybe more?) I get this cookie banner.
I make my selections, and expect the site to remember them. A week ...
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The Flow State homepage is tracking users without consent
I just took a look at the Agenda of the SO Flow State conference, and I noticed that it seemed a bit absurdly slow and buggy for such a simple site. So I poked around with the dev tools and noticed ...
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What data from users does Stack Exchange keep?
I'm from Europe, which has the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Does Stack Exchange have a GDPR manifest? What data from users does Stack Exchange keep?
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stackexchange.com missing cookie consent logic
There appear to be two bugs on stackexchange.com regarding GDPR/CookieLaw and cookie consent:
There's no cookie consent dialog, similar to the rest of the Stack Exchange network
You can't manage ...
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Why is Stack Exchange using dark patterns on its cookie permission dialog?
It would appear as though Stack Exchange is employing a dark pattern in its cookie permission dialogs.
Specifically, there are two buttons presented in the initial dialog. The colour depends on the SE ...
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Why does SE track post referrers?
I exported my SE data, and in /qa/[site]\PostReferralsInbound.json there are entries like
{"postId":1732454,"ipAddress":"...","creationDate":"2021-05-09T21:...
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GDPR Request: Post Edit does not contain the edit
X\PostHistory.json contains the Initial Title, Initial Tag, Initial Body, Edit Title, Edit Tag, and Edit Body. But it does not contain what exactly was edited!
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In GDPR data dumps, can the backslashes in file paths please be changed to forward slashes, so they're not broken for non-Windows users?
(A quick note: I'm a primarily Windows user, but as an occasional Mac and Linux user, and having technical knowledge of the issue, I can see why this is a problem, and many others have raised this ...
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Chat messages and SO Jobs data are missing from the GDPR Data Access Request JSON dump
I just recently learned about the automated service provided by Stack Exchange for handling GDPR Data Access Requests. So, of course, I tried it out, and indeed promptly received a 13 megabyte zip ...
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Why can't I dismiss these Stack Exchange cookie popups on mobile browser? [closed]
These pop-ups keep appearing on my Android phone when browsing Stack Exchange sites. No matter what I choose these popups occur on every page refresh and whenever I try to view a question.
I'm using ...
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