Nice 👏 My first big deletion was Facebook sometime around 2019. At first I was worried about how it would affect my life with so much reliance on specific features and a few weeks later I knew it was one of the best decisions I'd ever made in terms of my actions and behaviour online
good for you. Have a related question. Been on fedi a short time, but I’m thinking about the privacy aspects. Pretty much all the posts and replies we write, unless they’re private and within the instance, are pretty much public right? So 3rd party orgs could in theory read them and build profiles on us. Is that right?
How do they make sure you are the legitimate owner of that account after you deactivated it? Do they check whether you have control over the email address that was used to register? @datn
i imagine that you know them noyb.eu/en Austrian lawyers that have being working on GDPR and denouncing in Europe. maybe this can be an strategic case... for them also.
Obviously still go via the GDPR data removal route, but I found a bit of peace writing a script leveraging the API to delete all old posts. I think you can only delete 10 at a time, but a loop sorts that out
I did this back in April, so haven't got the script to hand, thought it was only a 5 liner
@ainmosni @Marguerite Yep, it’s actually _after_ deactivating it that you should send the GDPR erasure request (as they no longer have a legitimate interest in holding your data as you’ve expressed your will to delete your account).
@dch If you have #gdpr rights, they have 30 days to comply or they’re in breech (I believe they can extend it another 30 days under certain circumstances).
They’ve already been reprimanded and possibly fined for that in Ireland, I believe.
I read a couple of days ago that you said you'd just not use you twitter account anymore but will leave it so that links don't break or something like that.
Wow! I’ve never seen anyone ditch Twitter for Mastodon before. I gotta say, that sure is something all right. A very interesting decision, no doubt about that🤔🤔🤔
what was your reasoning vs keeping the account as 🔒 and changing the nick to your fediverse handle so followers could still easily find you (as in automatically via fedifinder.glitch.me/ or other services like that)?
Going forward, I will no longer be checking Twitter or responding on it … I plan to concentrate as much of my time and energy as possible on building the Small Web.
@axantoni Believe it or not that’s one of the main reasons I kept with it for as long as I did. But y’know what, I’ve made peace with the fact that it’s not my job to gate keep my name from a damn petroleum company on every freaking Big Tech silo :)
i did this back when twitter ovners first decided they would like to be bought by the bro. Even if the deal would not have happened it would still have been a breach of trust in my opinion. I don’t want him anywhere near any data about me.
@beverleykendall Hey Beverley, it’s a right we have under the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU. I believe there’s still a comparable statue in UK law and in California also. I’m using a service by a not-for-profit that composes the email for you and can help you follow-up with the process.
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I'm still stuck because I have 1 bubble that won't budge - they might not see my invitation posts because my interaction count is too low 🙄
Got a few likes, but no signups.
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in reply to Dan Shick • • •@datn I’m trying out the service provided by Your Digital Rights:
yourdigitalrights.org/d/twitte…
It creates an email similar to the one in the screenshot for your and they also apparently tell you when to follow up, etc.
#gdpr #erasure #twitter #YourDigitalRights
Twitter.com - Delete Your Account or Get a Copy of Your Data | YourDigitalRights.org
YourDigitalRights.orgAral Balkan reshared this.
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noyb.eu/en
Austrian lawyers that have being working on GDPR and denouncing in Europe. maybe this can be an strategic case... for them also.
@datn
NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday
noyb.euAral Balkan
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Inspiring.
Paul Wilde :blobcatnim_new: :dontpanic_nobg:
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Obviously still go via the GDPR data removal route, but I found a bit of peace writing a script leveraging the API to delete all old posts. I think you can only delete 10 at a time, but a loop sorts that out
I did this back in April, so haven't got the script to hand, thought it was only a 5 liner
Aral Balkan
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in reply to Daniël Franke 🏳️🌈 • • •@ainmosni @Marguerite Yep, it’s actually _after_ deactivating it that you should send the GDPR erasure request (as they no longer have a legitimate interest in holding your data as you’ve expressed your will to delete your account).
More: mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109285601…
Aral Balkan
2022-11-04 12:45:35
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •: did the same one year ago (with a verified and highly followed account). Hard to do but never looked back…
ploum.net/la-legerete-dun-mond…
La légèreté d’un monde sans Twitter | ploum.net
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in reply to dch • • •@dch If you have #gdpr rights, they have 30 days to comply or they’re in breech (I believe they can extend it another 30 days under certain circumstances).
They’ve already been reprimanded and possibly fined for that in Ireland, I believe.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I read a couple of days ago that you said you'd just not use you twitter account anymore but will leave it so that links don't break or something like that.
What changed since then?
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Best decision!
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Well done. I'm very close myself. I just need a few people I'm following to move or go elsewhere and I'll be off too.
Interestingly, I only found you through Mastodon, not twitter 😸
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in reply to Shane Celis • • •@shanecelis Thanks, Shane, it was a long time coming ;)
ar.al/2021/05/10/hell-site/
Hell site
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in reply to Beverley Kendall • • •@beverleykendall Hey Beverley, it’s a right we have under the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU. I believe there’s still a comparable statue in UK law and in California also. I’m using a service by a not-for-profit that composes the email for you and can help you follow-up with the process.
Details + link: mastodon.ar.al/web/@aral/10928…
Aral Balkan
2022-11-04 12:45:35
ACRWorld99
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in reply to ACRWorld99 • • •@ACRWorld99 Thanks, looking forward to your posts also :)
PS. Of what persuasion are the fur babies? (We have a fully huskamute of our own.)
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I thought I would follow @aral's example and finally get around to deleting my two twitter accounts that have both been unused for over a year.
I deactivate the first one and get a stupid email telling me that I have turned off two-factor authentication. (But it does appear to be deactivated).
I try to deactivate the second one but am told that twitter has suspended my account (who knows why) and won't let me delete it. 😞
#twitter