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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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 rights of person who moves into the EU
Suppose that a person not resident (nor present) in the EU, say in Mexico, obtains services from a provider located in the US, and provides personal information in connection with those services, ...
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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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Twitter has no "delete account" button - no mention of data deletion after 30 days of account deactivation - GDPR and European law enforcement
I want to delete my Twitter account. I believe Article 17(1)(a) of GDPR compels Twitter to give me the option to do that.
But Twitter has no "delete account" button. There is only a "...
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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.
Web agencies ...
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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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Can ISPs in the EU (covered by GDPR) record the device IDs on a home network?
In theory an ISP who provides a integrated router/Wifi point could sniff and record the traffic from individual devices on a home network. These devices (like PCs, phones and tablets) could be ...
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Can the GDPR be used to obtain US voting information
This grows out of a comment in the question Who Has the Right to Access State Voter Records and How May That Right be Expediently Exercised?
If a US citizen is currently resident in the EU, can that ...
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Must VPN service providers whose servers are in the US, disclose a customer's IP address upon request from another country?
Is it obligatory for a VPN service provider with servers in the United States to disclose a user's personal information (such as IP address and logs) in response to a request that came from another ...
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