It’s easier to pretend your data were deleted than collecting part of your data and sending them back to you.
They almost every time don’t know how much, where, why they have so much data.
They certainly have no way to collect them, only hand made work, so let’s have a little misunderstanding and hope it works.
Now that you’ve been deleted, wait until you receive the next text or email marketing campaign ;)
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I may or may not be working next door to a data protection officer.
"datum" is the singular, but you're right that it's not really grammatically plural since you'd say "the data was stolen" not "the data were stolen". I think the latter would technically also be valid; my interpretation would be that the latter is "countable" plural, so there are specific discrete datums that were stolen.
Confusingly, British English actually does treat nouns like "data" and "government" as plural where American English does not. Even more confusingly, they're a little inconsistent with it, so you can find published examples of both.
That doesnt delete your data. Now they have right to keep it forever for their "legitimate" reasons to protect them from a user who break their ToS. All you accomplish is give up the little rights you have.
Corporations could actually do this anyway because there are so many vague rules in ToS and they can bend them however they want and without any user knowing you could all be flagged as a malicious users just so they have "legitimate" reason to do lots of nasty things with your data such as sharing them with networks who work together to prevent "malicious" users and "russian troll farms" etc. The whole system is rigged and just an illusion of protections for consumers/people.
With accounts that are less data-miney, you can replace all your account details (name, email addy, region, etc.) with gibberish and wait for it all to update, and then replace your password so not even you can get into it.
If it's more data-miney and you are willing to put in a few months / years of maintenance, you can trickle in the gibberish and false data until it's thoroughly poisoned.
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It’s easier to pretend your data were deleted than collecting part of your data and sending them back to you. They almost every time don’t know how much, where, why they have so much data. They certainly have no way to collect them, only hand made work, so let’s have a little misunderstanding and hope it works.
Now that you’ve been deleted, wait until you receive the next text or email marketing campaign ;)
— I may or may not be working next door to a data protection officer.
[edit: replaced "datas" by "data"]
data is already a plural word friend! "datas" is confusing to read
What am I supposed to do with those informations?
Write them on sheets of papers
And then invoke GDPR, ask for a printed copy
Start using datum for singular...which is even weirder than datas imo.
Noted, not native english here ;)
yeah don't worry, i'm not either, everyone learns at some point! :)
Is data a plural word? I thought it was a word without plural form
If data is plural, does that mean that "the data was stolen" is wrong and "the data were stolen" is right?
"datum" is the singular, but you're right that it's not really grammatically plural since you'd say "the data was stolen" not "the data were stolen". I think the latter would technically also be valid; my interpretation would be that the latter is "countable" plural, so there are specific discrete datums that were stolen.
Confusingly, British English actually does treat nouns like "data" and "government" as plural where American English does not. Even more confusingly, they're a little inconsistent with it, so you can find published examples of both.
it's like a special category of words idk, grammar theory is my weakest point
data can be one point of data, and data can be many points of data
meanwhile at the fuck off department, as a reply to "delete everything"
Is that even GDPR compliant?
it is not. we exchanged 7 emails and they basically laughed to my face.
It's easy to delete an account in X, simply post Musks flight plans, porno in Meta and spam in others. Account deleted in minutes.
That doesnt delete your data. Now they have right to keep it forever for their "legitimate" reasons to protect them from a user who break their ToS. All you accomplish is give up the little rights you have.
Corporations could actually do this anyway because there are so many vague rules in ToS and they can bend them however they want and without any user knowing you could all be flagged as a malicious users just so they have "legitimate" reason to do lots of nasty things with your data such as sharing them with networks who work together to prevent "malicious" users and "russian troll farms" etc. The whole system is rigged and just an illusion of protections for consumers/people.
I keep a bunch of cp images on my computer to do the trick /s
'malicious misunderstanding' bet
With accounts that are less data-miney, you can replace all your account details (name, email addy, region, etc.) with gibberish and wait for it all to update, and then replace your password so not even you can get into it.
If it's more data-miney and you are willing to put in a few months / years of maintenance, you can trickle in the gibberish and false data until it's thoroughly poisoned.
But can you trust them that you data is really gone?