Lemmy.World Announcements

28966 readers

6 users here now

This Community is intended for posts about the Lemmy.world server by the admins.

Follow us for server news 🐘

Outages 🔥

https://status.lemmy.world

For support with issues at Lemmy.world, go to the Lemmy.world Support community.

Support e-mail

Any support requests are best sent to [email protected] e-mail.

Report contact

DM https://lemmy.world/u/lwreport
Email [email protected] (PGP Supported)

Donations 💗

If you would like to make a donation to support the cost of running this platform, please do so at the following donation URLs.

If you can, please use / switch to Ko-Fi, it has the lowest fees for us

Join the team

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

118

Lemmy.world Site Redirects and More Removed (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago by MichelleG to c/lemmyworld

93 comments fedilink hide all child comments

We know an issue occurred on the site over an hour ago with someone using my account to redirect the site, make fake posts, and change other settings. The problem has been corrected.

We will continue to monitor the situation and keep you informed.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I realized I was just asking you to google something for me; sorry about that. I didn't know t applied to usernames, though. How is that "personal data"?

[–] trouser_mouse 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries!

An individual’s social media ‘handle’ or username, which may seem anonymous or nonsensical, is still sufficient to identify them as it uniquely identifies that individual. The username is personal data if it distinguishes one individual from another regardless of whether it is possible to link the ‘online’ identity with a ‘real world’ named individual.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/personal-information-what-is-it/what-is-personal-data/what-are-identifiers-and-related-factors/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The username is personal data if it distinguishes one individual from another

This makes a lot of sense. I was thinking of "personal data" as "something that identifies a specific person" instead.