Questions tagged [gdpr]
For questions about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, an EU privacy law) related to Stack Exchange. Do not ask questions about GDPR in general.
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Why is Stack giving the option manually object to "legitimate interests" if it is supposedly the same as pressing "necessary cookies only"?
This request recently got answered and the official answer says that Stack itself uses no cookies based on "legitimate interests".
While good to know, this leaves the following questions (...
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The Data Request form does not work in Tor
The issues with browsing over Tor have largely been fixed. I can use the top bar widgets, flag, comment, and close vote just fine now. However there is still an issue with Tor browsing.
If I go to ...
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"Necessary cookies only" enables cookies it shouldn't
The current layout of the cookie setting currently allows selecting "necessary cookies only" with one click. However, selecting "necessary cookies only" still leaves "...
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How do I use the current version of the GDPR form to request a data export?
Previously, in 2019, in this answer a process of requesting a dump of your export was documented. Since then, the design of the site was changed, and the current data request form isn't very clear ...
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Can the "Right to be forgotten" and a LLM "non-negotiable attribution" be reconciled? Do they need to?
I was trying to make sense of the impact of the GDPR "Right to be forgotten" rules in accordance to the growing number of LLM partnership the network is announcing lately.
The data subject ...
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GDPR deletion form is unintuitive
One would assume that a user who's going to be deleting their account completely and irrevocably network-wide would be unimpressed with dark patterns.
I was looking up the GDPR deletion page to point ...
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German localisation of policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request contains 2 paragraphs in Dutch and 1 heading in English
The German localisation of https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request contains 2 paragraphs in Dutch and 1 heading in English:
First reported by @Bergi in this comment: Upcoming privacy updates: ...
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Can I get statistics about my posts (such as views or votes) via a GDPR "Export my data" request?
I asked a question here about how to get data on my Q&A. The question was closed as being a duplicate of another question. That question is very different from mine, since it was asking for the ...
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We've updated the Data Subject Rights (DSR) request page
We’ve updated the Data Request page to use a native solution from our consent provider, OneTrust.
What is changing?
Data Subject Rights (DSR) requests, as a part of Stack Overflow’s global privacy ...
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How do I permanently set my cookie preferences?
I visit Stack Overflow on my phone several times a week, and it seems like about once a week (maybe more?) I get this cookie banner.
I make my selections, and expect the site to remember them. A week ...
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The Flow State homepage is tracking users without consent
I just took a look at the Agenda of the SO Flow State conference, and I noticed that it seemed a bit absurdly slow and buggy for such a simple site. So I poked around with the dev tools and noticed ...
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What data from users does Stack Exchange keep?
I'm from Europe, which has the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Does Stack Exchange have a GDPR manifest? What data from users does Stack Exchange keep?
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stackexchange.com missing cookie consent logic
There appear to be two bugs on stackexchange.com regarding GDPR/CookieLaw and cookie consent:
There's no cookie consent dialog, similar to the rest of the Stack Exchange network
You can't manage ...
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Why is Stack Exchange using dark patterns on its cookie permission dialog?
It would appear as though Stack Exchange is employing a dark pattern in its cookie permission dialogs.
Specifically, there are two buttons presented in the initial dialog. The colour depends on the SE ...
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Why does SE track post referrers?
I exported my SE data, and in /qa/[site]\PostReferralsInbound.json there are entries like
{"postId":1732454,"ipAddress":"...","creationDate":"2021-05-09T21:...
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