Questions tagged [personal-information]
This tag is for questions about information concerning a specific person. It includes privacy issues, access issues, and security issues.
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High School forced labor for grades?
I have a friend in a high school computer science course in Texas. This is a course required for graduation and is not a volunteer thing. Apparently, the teacher is having the students develop an ...
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Is a bank account history of transactions considered personal data in the sense of GDPR?
For archival purposes, I'm trying to get the full history of transactions on my bank account since I opened it in 2019. I know my bank still has it since it's visible in the mobile app (I can scroll ...
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GDPR - Are technical identifiers personal data?
I've built devices for an internet service provider company (in EU) to measure internet speed at subscribers' home. The devices are used by company technicians when fixing network speed problems ...
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What legal actions can we take for website that doesn't remove PII upon requests?
A business directory listing website scraped old data for their listings. They use random contact information, personally identifiable information (PII), logos/banners to falsely represent those ...
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Are users' personal notes about other users subjected to the GDPR right of access?
Some applications, like Discord or Mastodon, allow a user A to put private notes (only accessible to A) next to the profile of another user B. This data is very probably Personal Identifiable ...
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Webhosts' legal obligations to remove publicly available content associated with specific IP addresses
Let's say one builds a website allowing users to post text content that is publicly available and searchable via the IP address of the users who submitted it. Would the owner of that website be ...
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Practical GDPR guidance for online businesses
When you start an online business, or even just create a website, there is a lot of confusion on what needs to be done to comply with GDPR. As many online resources (including StackExchange) suggest, ...
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Where should personal data be stored to comply with GDPR?
We are a company based in Europe.
We have personal data about our users worldwide (name, mail, phone number, company, title). And currently it is stored in Microsoft Azure. We don't know physically ...
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Is there a way to determine if an email address is personal information?
The GDPR defines personal data as:
Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
My understanding is that this means that firstname.lastname@example.com is ...
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Is satelite data personal data?
It is in the news that artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied to aerial photography to identify homeowners who have made unauthorised additions of swimming pools to their properties in France. ...
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What is the appropriate way to initiate a money claim if the defendant will not provide an address?
Say Alice was in an accident with Bob that was 100% Bobs fault. At the scene email addresses and vehicle registration number plates were exchanged, and in later email exchanges the insurance details ...
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ADP Payroll Services and privacy
Does there exist protections for employees regarding Personally Identifiable Information that employers gather?
Does there exist protections for employees regarding Personally Identifiable Information ...
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GDPR and personal data reselling
The situation is following:
I had an account in company A which then was sold to company B, both conduct online services.
I wasn't aware of this because I didn't log in to my account for several years,...
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Legality of Credit Bureaus selling information without consent
I recently had a hard pull for a mortgage done (USA based). Since then, my personal phone number has been bombarded with calls and texts related to "better offers", despite being registered ...
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How can one not know their own legal marital status?
I saw this screenshot floating around for a California jury duty online questionnaire. Notice that "Not known" is a selectable option for one's marital status:
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I don't know ...
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What is considered personal information according to the US law?
As a follow up question from this question a person's name, age, address, parties affiliation are considered public data.
I'd like to ask then what is considered personal information?
So if there is a ...
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Why are websites like voter's records legal?
How is it possible that https://voterrecords.com/ can operate without any problems?
They reveal your personal information without your direct consent. Basically, you can find the address of anyone who ...
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Can I request my comment be deleted from a forum if I made that post when I was 12?
Basically what the title says. I'm very ignorant when it comes to these sorts of laws and rules so please be kind. I made a post on an “audition forum” when I was 12 years old. The post included my ...
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Is it allowed to non-consensually submit someone's diary as evidence?
In episode 12, season 4 of The Office, called "The Deposition", the diary of a witness (Michael Scott) is used as evidence, without the witness's consent. The diary was taken by the suer, ...
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Under the GDPR in Germany, is a privacy-policy required when not tracking any personal data whatsoever
I have a small static personal website, where I publish some technical articles and my personal CV.
Do I need to include a privacy-policy if:
There are no (third- or first party) tracking services ...
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Under GDPR can a company give out the demographics of employees e.g. ethnic background without anonymising it?
If a client asks for the demographics of a company's employees e.g. female to male ratio or ethnicity. Does this have to be anonymised so it is compliant with the GDPR or can the names be revealed?
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Privacy Policy and CCPA - selling of personal information
I would like to know if the following scenario is considered as "selling personal information" according to CCPA:
Scenario:
Have a subscription based web application. For payment have an ...
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Does failure to provide photo of face count as breach of GDPR in UK?
I have requested that an aesthetic clinic send me the 'before' images taken of my face before a procedure two times via email. They have ignored my requests while responding to other questions in the ...
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GDPR (and data protection laws in general) in regard to non-commercial, personal database
(this is the closest StackExchange site I could find, even so, I'm sorry if the Q is still a bit out of place).
So, I've just finished building an application for better handling some of my needs and ...
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GDPR and Personal Data Encryption
Suppose we have some user's personal data, that we have to encrypt and store in a database.
I've read this would technically not be a breach of personal data, since the attacker would only have ...
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Is Doxing illegal in Iceland?
While it is my understanding that electronically or postally publishing someone's personal information in an attempt to cause them emotional distress, intimidate them, or place them in reasonable fear ...
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GDPR and Certification Check
Based in UK.
I manage a certification website that allows users to register an account and complete a course, before doing so they explicitly agree to the website's privacy policy and GDPR. The ...
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Is it illegal to fetch a picture from another phone remotely after having a consent Or prior Permissions?
Me and my girlfriend are using an app that takes the access of your partners phone camera, then clicks the image & sends image back to requester. After fiddling with it, we are planning to launch ...
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Privacy and ownership of my medical records
Can I request my medical records (such as having had a flu, surgery, etc) to be taken out, to keep them myself instead of trusting an institution to respect my privacy according to any EU laws?
I have ...
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Can you opt out of use of your personal information by your country's registry?
I was changing my address a week ago and I noticed that it said in tiny letters that the information I provide may be used for direct advertising, marketting, scientific research, data collection and &...
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May I publish source code of my project without notifications about use of personal data and cookies and not break laws during it?
I have created the demo software project (frontend and backend modules) for manage staff. I want to publish source code of the project on GitHub. I know that according to GPDR page must have ...
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What happens if someone dies without a trace?
So normally the police or hospital is called and people get a death certificate.
If someone disappears with no report, what happens? Is a death certificate ever issued?
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I need my twitter deleted
I have seen one similar question but it is almost two years old, and there's a bit more to it.
I created a twitter account a long time ago because I was doing live streaming on adult websites. I need ...
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Denied Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) due to third-party information
A while ago I made a data subject access request (DSAR, asking for personal information which is stored about me) which was part of an ongoing complaint. In a nutshell, I did a complaint to a company ...
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Is there generally a duration after which a permission given to a person is terminated automatically?
Consider the following as an example:
Jack and Sam were both 18 years old. At the time, both were good friends, and Jack has given Sam permission to use his e-mail account for sending and reading e-...
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Let's say a UK employer doesn't have a password policy - can they insist that an employee divulge a password used on a client's systems?
Purely a hypothetical scenario:
UK employer is an agency with various teams that provide services - some of which are digital - to a third party.
The employees create accounts on the third party's ...
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Does COPPA require that users who provide PII while under 13, then turn 13 have their PII purged?
If there is a user of an online website who provides PII while under the age of 13, then later turns 13, would COPPA require that that person have their PII purged from that online website?
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GDPR - Are the typical lists of examples for personal data misleading?
Article 4 of the EU GDPR states
‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’);
The explanation for the term ‘personal data’ as
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GDPR, personal and political activity
The GDPR does not apply to the processing of personal data that is "by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity". I cannot find a description of "...
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Does a company have to disclose a data breach as part of the agreement with the SEC to be publicly traded?
If I run a publicly traded company that's releasing hardware and that hardware is compromised and customer data is harvested, do I have to publicize that leak's existence? What if the people that ...
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GDPR & Privacy Policy for a personal website where the only potential personal data is IP logs
I'm based in the UK, and I am building a personal website (basically an online resume/portfolio) which I have ensured does not collect any personal information (there are no forms, cookies etc.). I do ...
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Should I blur personally identifiable information on Facebook screen recording for YouTube?
(Global question: EU, US, etc)
I'm recording a video for YouTube where I show how browser extension works while surfing through different Facebook Groups, Business Pages, Personal Profiles, etc.
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Zipcar won't delete my driver's license from their records; are they legally required to?
I cancelled my Zipcar account 5 years ago.
Today I tried to re-open it. I created a new account, but it wouldn't allow me to because it said my driver's license was already in use.
I called customer ...
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What charges does one risk if they share personal pictures without permission?
This question was inspired by something I read on another Stack Exchange website.
Basically, Mr. Johnson works at a small company Good Company. His responsibility is to manage and organise the ...
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Can I use an Employee's Personal ID in an company internal project? (EU Data protection Law)
I want to create an Order-Website for our company, where employees can order dishes from the canteen, so they know roughly how much food to order.
Now the question came up, if you order some dish, but ...
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UK: What information are the police legally required to collect when going door-to-door, and why?
A few days ago, a police officer knocked on my door in the evening and asked whether I had noticed any disturbances in my street earlier in the day - he said it was in relation to reports that they'd ...
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Is it legal to advertise a service as 'free' if they collect data?
I noticed that a lot of companies label themselves as 'free' even though they collect personal data (which in today's day and age is practically a currency in and of itself). I was wondering how/if it'...
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Shoud a company send to customers of its clients notice when getting data about them under GDPR Article 14?
A SaaS company (A) provides services, (e.g. web hosting) for its clients, (e.g. web agency B).
The clients can create websites for their customers (C) and host them using the web hosting.
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Should the client be informed every time when more personal data is requested under GDPR Article 13?
A SaaS company offers some services, which require registration. Its clients are notified about Terms of Service and Privacy Policy during the registration process.
Should the company send to the ...
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Twitter and account deactivation - Do you have to explicitly ask for account to be deleted if company nowhere says that it will do so? [duplicate]
I am trying to delete my Twitter account.
Twitter only has a "deactivate" account button, and no "delete" account button, as I posted here.
It looks like in the guides posted by ...
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