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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? UNIX.COM General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR) Compliance - For Member Comments Post 303018567 by Neo on Sunday 10th of June 2018 04:12:26 PM
Old 06-10-2018
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Originally Posted by RudiC
Not sure I get the subtleties of the English language ... if you say we can and will edit suspect posts, be it on demand or on our own findings, then I'm happy with that. I just wanted to emphasize that we are trying to keep high standards not only when asked to delete an account, but constantly day in day out, running the site.
Posts are not private. Posts are public.

Therefore, when a user posts any data, they are posting the data publicly.

When the user makes a mistake and posts data which moderators deem to be private data (for example email addresses), moderators generally delete or mask private data, which we have done here for a very long time.

The part of the policy which you quoted earlier was not related to the content of posts, except when a user requests their account to be completely deleted; and those posts which were posted by that users (all posts belong to the forums are are public data after posting), are reassigned to a different username (in this case "guest")

As I recall, all of this information above is discussed in the privacy policy; but if not, please let me know and where and what to add to the policy.

Thanks!
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METADATA(1)                                                        User Commands                                                       METADATA(1)

NAME
MAT - Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit SYNOPSIS
mat [options] files mat-gui DESCRIPTION
The Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit is a lib (with a CLI and a GUI) created to anonymise file's metadata. In essence, metadata answer who, what, when, where, why, and how about every face of the data that are being documented. They can be a risk for privacy. OPTIONS
-h, --help show this help message and exit -a, --add2archive Add to outputed archive non-supported filetypes -b, --backup Keep a backup copy -c, --check Check if a file is free of harmful metadatas -d, --display List all the harmful meta of a file without removing them -f, --force Don't check if files are clean before cleaning -l, --list List all supported fileformat -v, --version Display version and exit EXAMPLES
mat --display mydocument.pdf Display the mydocument.pdf's harmful metadata mat --check *.jpg Check all the jpg images from the current folder NOTES
MAT only process metadata, it does not handle file data. Blame yourself if you are traced back because of the data of your files. MAT is not perfect : In most of the cases, a forensic expert with a lot of time can trace back your document. If you want absolute privacy, use plain-text. AUTHOR
Julien (jvoisin) Voisin <pouicpouicpouic@gmail.com>, during the GSoC 2011 BUGS
MAT does not handle watermaking/tattoo for now. SEE ALSO
exiftool, hachoir-metadata Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit August 2011 METADATA(1)
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