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I know there is a lot going on at Twitter right now, but here's one more thing. Twitter is ignoring #GDPR requests from people to delete their DMs.

At the moment, when you press delete on a Twitter DM (an individual message or conversation) the DM isn't actually deleted from Twitter's servers, just your inbox view.

So people in Europe have been making requests for Twitter to blitz all their messages. It hasn't properly answered them. And now regulators are looking at it

Full story here: wired.com/story/delete-twitter…

#Twitter #gdpr #infosec #technology #news #wired

in reply to Matt Burgess

Ultimately, Veale says, Big Tech companies are trying to position themselves so that they decide what people’s information rights are and what information they should provide to people. Veale highlights tech companies’ “download your data” services, which provide people with their posts, photos, and other data, but appear to avoid providing other forms of data such as analytical information. “We don’t really know the extent of information that’s collected by these companies,” Veale says. “The real core problem is that these companies disguise things that look like information rights behind fake user interfaces.”


I'm reminded of someone some years ago who requested their data from Spotify, and had to do back-and-forthing to then finally get what he wanted. And what he got was very detailed about him. Pretty sure much more detailed than what Spotify would usually give to its users requesting their data.

in reply to Hawlucha

@Hawlucha which reminds me of someone with a fitness tracker, where the app gave just the last week or so, and the web export had only 1 measurement per minute. GDPR request to get all data in digital form, received a disk with all data ever stored, very detailed. Conclusion: To export your data, make a GDPR request… 🙈