So this is someone claing to have three user accounts on your forum?
In reply to your contact,
As I understand you have requested information relating to 3 people named within your contact to us.
Under the law, I am only able to process requests by the named person who requests information about themselves. we are not allowed to pass on information relating to anyone else who is a third party.
In regards to yourself, as I understand you are not a member of the site, thus we would hold no information relating to you. If you are a member please could you send a data request directly from the email address that is currently associated with your account including the username that you use? We will then forward a copy of all the information we hold on that username and account directly to you by email.
You further claim that our site is in breach of our own terms and conditions relating to anonymous posts, please could you be more specific so that we may further assist you.
I am disappointed with your Company's responses to my communications to date.
As a Data Controller/Processor you should be aware that the perceived rights of your members are legally framed within the Data Protection and general GDPR regulation, and your role is to consider the rights and entitlements (and statutory protection) of subjects outside of your membership, specifically in the areas of content and named persons.
Please be aware that I have employed the services of a Solicitor in related matters, and will have no hesitation in initiating legal proceedings if your company does not respond in the spirit of the Law.
I've got a feeling the Mr Unbugunu from Nigeria is going to have a field day with spurious claims and demands aimed at the owners of websites, many of whom will not have a clue.
Also, never mind the SEO demands, you know the ones, they tell you that your offer of Domain Services is about to expire ...
Wait until the GDPR demands start flooding in, 'Your Domain is in breach of GDPR and you are liable for a fine of $enter_amount, click here to let us help you "
I don't even think they have 1 account, more so they are just looking to cause some sort of trouble. I believe they have an issue with a relative that posts on my site and trying to force us to ban that member to settle their family feud.
Incidentally, I just received a response from them after sending an email requesting they validate their id for the requested information.
My reply to their Original request.
Dear XXXXX
Then they replied with this
Like most my site is run as a hobby, we are not a business other than making some money from Google ads and donations to keep the site running.
Try sending them your own request for YOUR PII data from them to be sent to you in a machine readable format.I don't even think they have 1 account, more so they are just looking to cause some sort of trouble. I believe they have an issue with a relative that posts on my site and trying to force us to ban that member to settle their family feud.
Incidentally, I just received a response from them after sending an email requesting they validate their id for the requested information.
My reply to their Original request.
Dear XXXXX
Then they replied with this
Like most my site is run as a hobby, we are not a business other than making some money from Google ads and donations to keep the site running.
I know that when you delete a user, you can rename them to a different unknown user.
That's where much of this is up for interpretation. If you anonymize the user, remove the email address, and ip address, the only thing that could possibly be considered personal identification information is something in their posts, but not all their posts would be PII.Obviously at this stage almost everything is still open to some degree of interpretation but I'd say that wouldn't satisfy the regulations.
If you delete a user then generally they are gone along with all their details and post history so there would be nothing left to rename. If however you anonymize a user by renaming them thus leaving elements of their account intact, you should probably anonymize their user name properly i.e. I don't believe you can simply substitute one unique user name for another.
I noticed that in one of the last updates of xenforo 2.0, when you go to delete a user, it asks if you want to anonymize that user instead. I think that's great in terms of keeping the information that they posted.Obviously at this stage almost everything is still open to some degree of interpretation but I'd say that wouldn't satisfy the regulations.
If you delete a user then generally they are gone along with all their details and post history so there would be nothing left to rename. If however you anonymize a user by renaming them thus leaving elements of their account intact, you should probably anonymize their user name properly i.e. I don't believe you can simply substitute one unique user name for another.
That's where much of this is up for interpretation.
Agreed, I just hope none of us here are the ones that get tested...It really is at this stage and that applies to some extent with the commissioning bodies tasked with administrating the regulation. That is until the regulation is tested in a court of law.
I don't even think they have 1 account, more so they are just looking to cause some sort of trouble. I believe they have an issue with a relative that posts on my site and trying to force us to ban that member to settle their family feud.
Incidentally, I just received a response from them after sending an email requesting they validate their id for the requested information.
My reply to their Original request.
Dear XXXXX
Then they replied with this
Like most my site is run as a hobby, we are not a business other than making some money from Google ads and donations to keep the site running.
I've got a feeling the Mr Unbugunu from Nigeria is going to have a field day with spurious claims and demands aimed at the owners of websites, many of whom will not have a clue.
Also, never mind the SEO demands, you know the ones, they tell you that your offer of Domain Services is about to expire ...
Wait until the GDPR demands start flooding in, 'Your Domain is in breach of GDPR and you are liable for a fine of $enter_amount, click here to let us help you "
some EU companies have already shut down as they felt that they could not comply with GDPR,
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