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[–] [email protected] 110 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It’s easier to pretend your data were deleted than collecting part of your data and sending them back to you. They almost every time don’t know how much, where, why they have so much data. They certainly have no way to collect them, only hand made work, so let’s have a little misunderstanding and hope it works.

Now that you’ve been deleted, wait until you receive the next text or email marketing campaign ;)

— I may or may not be working next door to a data protection officer.

[edit: replaced "datas" by "data"]

[–] shneancy 37 points 4 days ago (3 children)

data is already a plural word friend! "datas" is confusing to read

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What am I supposed to do with those informations?

[–] Czele 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Write them on sheets of papers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

And then invoke GDPR, ask for a printed copy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Start using datum for singular...which is even weirder than datas imo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Noted, not native english here ;)

[–] shneancy 3 points 4 days ago

yeah don't worry, i'm not either, everyone learns at some point! :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is data a plural word? I thought it was a word without plural form

If data is plural, does that mean that "the data was stolen" is wrong and "the data were stolen" is right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"datum" is the singular, but you're right that it's not really grammatically plural since you'd say "the data was stolen" not "the data were stolen". I think the latter would technically also be valid; my interpretation would be that the latter is "countable" plural, so there are specific discrete datums that were stolen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Confusingly, British English actually does treat nouns like "data" and "government" as plural where American English does not. Even more confusingly, they're a little inconsistent with it, so you can find published examples of both.

[–] shneancy 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

it's like a special category of words idk, grammar theory is my weakest point

data can be one point of data, and data can be many points of data

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

meanwhile at the fuck off department, as a reply to "delete everything"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is that even GDPR compliant?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

it is not. we exchanged 7 emails and they basically laughed to my face.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

It's easy to delete an account in X, simply post Musks flight plans, porno in Meta and spam in others. Account deleted in minutes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

'malicious misunderstanding' bet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

With accounts that are less data-miney, you can replace all your account details (name, email addy, region, etc.) with gibberish and wait for it all to update, and then replace your password so not even you can get into it.

If it's more data-miney and you are willing to put in a few months / years of maintenance, you can trickle in the gibberish and false data until it's thoroughly poisoned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

But can you trust them that you data is really gone?