Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   fmobus (fmobus@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 16:37:09 JST fmobus

   • emilygorcenski

   @emilygorcenski only caveat is you may need to send the request by fax

   • Embed this notice
     Cato (cato@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 17:52:24 JST Cato

     • emilygorcenski

     @emilygorcenski Did something happen that made this a current topic or is this just general advice?

   • Embed this notice
     Robert Atkins (ratkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 18:27:45 JST Robert Atkins

     • emilygorcenski

     @emilygorcenski Is an SO contribution necessarily “personal data”?

   • Embed this notice
     Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 (martin_piper@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 20:14:46 JST Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉

     • emilygorcenski

     @emilygorcenski GDPR doesn't apply to technical answers.

   • Embed this notice
     Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 (martin_piper@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 20:20:16 JST Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉

     • emilygorcenski

     @emilygorcenski yes, which is not technical reply data. So actually trying to abuse GDPR for this purpose will mean it removes any attribution to the original technical answer. This means the technical answer remains and there would not even need to be attribution.
     That rather makes it *more likely* that the technical answer is used for AI, not less likely.

   • Embed this notice
     Robert Atkins (ratkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 20:24:58 JST Robert Atkins

     in reply to

     • emilygorcenski
     • njsg

     @njsg @emilygorcenski Simply stripping the names from the contributions, if the names are the only PII in most cases.

   • Embed this notice
     Robert Atkins (ratkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 20:24:59 JST Robert Atkins

     • emilygorcenski

     @emilygorcenski That presents a simple solution for SO I would think.

   • Embed this notice
     njsg (njsg@social.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 20:24:59 JST njsg

     in reply to

     • emilygorcenski
     • Robert Atkins

     @ratkins @emilygorcenski What solution other than deleting all contributions too, copyright violation?

   • Embed this notice
     Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 (martin_piper@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 20:25:13 JST Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉

     • emilygorcenski

     @emilygorcenski people seem to be trying to remove the technical answers with these GDPR requests. That will not work.
     It actually benefits Stackoverflow because they won't have to track attribution for those answers.
     It's abuse in as far as GDPR was never meant to apply to technical content, only personally identifiable data.