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Is there a way to determine if an email address is personal information?
Treat all email addresses as if they are personal data.
All email addresses that belong to a specific person are personal data of that person, regardless of the specific form of the address.
If your ...
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High School forced labor for grades?
Various elements could be legal, or not. For example, it is legal to require students to do things in order to pass a class. It is legal to require a student to write a program for a course (entirely, ...
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Is a "login timestamp" considered as personal data according to GDPR?
You ask the wrong question first
What do you save in the database? Let's take an example of a door:
Do you have a legitimate interest to know/save who passed this door?
Do you have a legitimate ...
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Why are websites like voter's records legal?
There is a law requiring it (in Washington). Per RCW 29a.08.720, "current lists of registered voters are public records and must be made available for public inspection and copying under such ...
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Is it allowed to non-consensually submit someone's diary as evidence?
united-states
Is a personal text (like a diary), submitted without the consent of
the author, admissible evidence?
Usually, it is admissible evidence. There is no legal right to keep your diary ...
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Can I request my comment be deleted from a forum if I made that post when I was 12?
Various Privacy Laws may Apply
If you live in the EU, the site may be required to delete this information under the GDPR. If you live in the UK, you may have the right to deletion under the UK-GDPR. ...
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Is a "login timestamp" considered as personal data according to GDPR?
The timestamp being among the data related to "an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)", the user, yes it is personal data.
GDPR Article 4(1):
‘personal data’ means ...
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Is it illegal to fetch a picture from another phone remotely after having a consent Or prior Permissions?
Of course, remote access tools and remote administration can be legitimate. But such tools also have substantial potential for abuse. You as the app provider might have a responsibility for ensuring ...
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Denied Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) due to third-party information
The GDPR allows the right to access to be limited if this access would “adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others” (Art 15(4) GDPR). However, access to the recording would not give you more ...
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Is there a way to determine if an email address is personal information?
As quarague correctly points out, you cannot reliably determine whether an email address is personal data. But since nearly all email addresses are personal data, you should treat all addresses in ...
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I need my twitter deleted
I do not have the phone number, email, or anything else associated with the account.
Well, neither do I - so it must be my account.
Unfortunately, the fact that you appear in most or all of the ...
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What happens if someone dies without a trace?
Community Service Announcement
A person going missing is serious. Many thousands of people disappear every year. In most cases they return or make contact with friends or family after a short while, ...
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Are users' personal notes about other users subjected to the GDPR right of access?
The Right to Access is pretty absolute. However, there are some limitations:
Is the service even the Data Controller for the data in question? Here, you're talking about notes of one user about ...
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I need my twitter deleted
When they refuse to give you control over the account because you can not (or they don't let you) prove that it's your account, then another option would be to report it as involuntary pornography of ...
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Are users' personal notes about other users subjected to the GDPR right of access?
GDPR does not apply to personal notes or processing
Art. 2 GDPR (2) (c):
(2) This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data:
(c) by a natural person in the course of a purely ...
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What happens if someone dies without a trace?
In lieu of a death certificate, a person can be declared dead by a court with probate jurisdiction under circumstances outlined under state statutes. Usually this is a combination of circumstances ...
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GDPR - Are technical identifiers personal data?
Question 1. Are technical identifiers personal data?
Yes. If they identify a person. For example an IP Address is considered personal data, because a person or household can be identified by an IP. ...
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Is it allowed to non-consensually submit someone's diary as evidence?
If you are in possession of evidence, you can be required to produce it
If you are a party to the case (plaintiff or defendant) this is through the discovery process. If you are not a party, then your ...
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Can the GDPR be used to obtain US voting information
I suspect that US voting records would fall under Article 2(2)(a):
Article 2
Material Scope
...
This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data:
(a) in the course of an activity ...
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What is considered personal information according to the US law?
Federal and state laws do protect a variety of different types of personal information in particular contexts, but there isn't really any information that is necessarily personal and protected from ...
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What is considered personal information according to the US law?
"Personal information" is not really the right concern, although some laws may use that expression (or similar expression like "individually identifiable health information"). ...
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Is there a way to determine if an email address is personal information?
Email should be treated as personal data. There is no long or complicated answer here. Even if it has no names or anything, they can sometimes be traced back to a real person so they are personal data....
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How can one not know their own legal marital status?
This Marriage Annulment FAQ purports to be based on real-world examples. The reasons for not knowing the status of a marriage appear to fall into three main categories;
That the marriage process is ...
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Why are websites like voter's records legal?
Everything which is not forbidden is allowed
What law does allow this site to show your name and address and many other things.
A basic principle of law is that people are free to do all kinds of ...
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Is there a way to determine if an email address is personal information?
All email addresses are personal data
This is because they can be combined with other information to identify a natural person.
For your example of [email protected], for a sufficiently small ...
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GDPR - Are technical identifiers personal data?
TL;DR: yes it's personal data, yes you can store the identifier in the device, yes the data should eventually be deleted, but no, this doesn't have to complicate how your device works.
Personal data ...
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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 don't think you would be responsible for whether your software is used in a GDPR-compliant manner.
For GDPR compliance, it is important who the data controller is. The data controller is whoever ...
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Should the client be informed every time when more personal data is requested under GDPR Article 13?
Art 13 GDPR is about information to be provided when data is collected directly from the data subject. This information can be provided directly during/before collection. It is not generally necessary ...
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