What is on Your Mind?

Dear All,

Please read version Version 0.81 28 May 2018 of our draft

UNIX.COM General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR) Compliance.

If you have any data privacy questions or concerns, or would like to see us address any other data privacy topic related to your personal data at UNIX.COM, please post back here in this discussion thread.

After receiving your comments, we will update the draft and ask all users to acceptthe rules again, which include this our new GDPR-upgraded privacy and personal data policy above.

Thanks!

Hi Neo...

Good one, I only noticed one error:

Data Logging paragraph:
"""
UNIX.COM also users this information
"""

Should read:
"""
UNIX.COM also uses this information
"""
users changed to uses ...

Thanks Wise!

(fixed!)

Any more comments or questions on the new forum privacy statement (based on GDPR) ?

If not, will we soon require all members to read and accept the new privacy statement as a part of the forum rules.

Thanks.

Scanning quickly through the draft, the only hickup I have is in the second paragraph: "any personal or privacy data" - shouldn't that read "private data"?
And, in the "Removal of User Accounts, Posts and Name Changes" section, does "We are able to anonymize posts from accounts that have been deleted." imply editing posts that might have sensitive data in them? Which we already do right now, btw, on demand.

Thanks. Will change that.

That line above is about what happens if we agree to delete a user account. The system will leave the posts as they are (the posts are public data without any sensitive or private data) and assign the posts to a "guest" user, and delete all other user-profile related data from the system (database).

Good question, Rudi! Thanks!!

All questions and comment welcome.

Unless all the other sites I have seen on the Internet who have recently updated their privacy policy due to GDPR, we have engaged our entire community for comments and questions prior to updating.

Should we, in the general text, insert a sentence that we "on demand edit a post that is deemed by the poster to contain sensitive data" or similar?