I still don’t get where all this disinformation comes from. What do you mean by “the GDPR website”? Are you under the impression that the linked website is somehow official? Even so, the information seems solid and shouldn’t give you these ideas.

A user is typically a natural person. A username identifies that person. Any information that is directly or indirectly linked to that username is thus personal data of that person. The GDPR explicitly gives “online identifier” as an example of an identifier. I did link to the official repository, which hosts translation in all European languages. Each translation can be reached with 1 click. It cannot be a language issue. I do not understand what the problem could be.

The personal data in the OP (consent options) are linked to a person via a cookie stored in their browser. I do not understand how one could make sense of the case without understanding what personal data is.

There also appears to be some confusion between GDPR and copyright. I do not know where these strange ideas come from.

Changing the subject. I take that as a sign that you understand how absurd your pontifications about the GDPR were. That’s great. I was able to help you. You’re welcome. However, it’s problematic that you chose to leave up incorrect info.

Now, you are not being truthful about what I wrote, so I do not think that it’s a good use of my time to lay out the issues here. If, at some point in the future, you are genuinely interested and able to behave like a responsible adult, we can talk about this.

Da ist nichts, was man einem Erwachsenen, der einen IT-Job hat, erklären müsste. Die Behauptung, dass personenbezogene Daten nach DSGVO und PII im US-Recht dasselbe sein, ist so fundamental unsinnig, dass ich sie nur als Witz verstehen kann. Klar, normalerweise würde ich das erklären, aber wenn einer so rumtextet von wegen Profi, dann muss das ein Witz sein.

In case there’s really anyone lurking here. Maybe you could explain to them what you think happens when one agrees to be tracked for ads. That ought to be funny. Do they send a drone swarm with 4K-cameras to your location? What’s a TC-string? Something that goes up your butt?

Ok. So you are trolling. Haha. The vote manipulation isn’t cool, though.

I’m in the EU and PII definitely IS “a thing” here,

Then let me be more clear: It is not a thing in EU law.

With due respect, the level of intellectual functioning, in this case reading comprehension, you display is incompatible with being an IT professional in any country. If you are not trolling, then you should consult a physician.

slight mistranslation: apparently, the proper english term is “personally identifiable information” or “PII”.

PII is a concept from US law. It is not a thing in the EU.

I have trouble believing that you have been taught this nonsense. As far as I can tell, the term “PID” is not in use anywhere. That commercial site that you are so kindly helping sell its services doesn’t seem to use it. So who taught you that?

PSA: Everything in the above post is wrong.

I copied from and linked to the GDPR on the official database of EU law. There is nothing I could possibly say to someone who claims that that is wrong.

That the facts are downvoted and the “alternative” upvoted is either the result of manipulation or says something very horrible about this community.

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For the purposes of this Regulation:

‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

GDPR

Anything connected to your username is personal data. Your votes, posts, comments, settings subscriptions, and so on, but only as long as they are or can be actually connected to that username. Arguably, the posts and comments that you reply to also become part of your personal data in that they are necessary context. Any data that can be connected to an email address, or an IP address, is also personal data. When you log IPs for spam protection, you’re collecting personal data.

It helps to understand the GDPR if you think about data protection rights as a kind of intellectual property. In EU law, the right to data protection is regarded as a fundamental right of its own, separate from the right to privacy. The US doesn’t have anything like it.

Federation means that personal data is sent to anyone who spins up an instance. What legal basis is there for that? These guys and their lawyers weren’t able to figure one out.

I don’t really see how this ruling is helpful. The reasoning seems to confirm the view that the Fediverse is legally very problematic.

It sounds like it would be relatively easy to fix, but I worry it will strengthen monopolistic tendencies.

Thanks for the answer.

By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.

What benefit do you expect from that?

Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.

Why not?

Hah. No. That goes all the way back to the 90ies. Tim Berners-Lee proposed that standard.

Doesn’t that seem awfully roundabout? You make the practice less effective at the price of also making beneficial uses of the data, eg for medical research, less effective.

The mega-rich can see my tax returns if I can see theirs. The data of the rich and famous is much more valuable than mine. Let’s not pretend that this helps the little guy. The little guy doesn’t throw around money to get their flight data removed from Twitter.

The question was how “less price gouging” would result from a right not to have “your data harvested by default”.

How do you expect that to result?