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GDPR deletion form is unintuitive
One would assume that a user who's going to be deleting their account completely and irrevocably network-wide would be unimpressed with dark patterns.
I was looking up the GDPR deletion page to point ...
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German localisation of policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request contains 2 paragraphs in Dutch and 1 heading in English
The German localisation of https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request contains 2 paragraphs in Dutch and 1 heading in English:
First reported by @Bergi in this comment: Upcoming privacy updates: ...
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The Flow State homepage is tracking users without consent
I just took a look at the Agenda of the SO Flow State conference, and I noticed that it seemed a bit absurdly slow and buggy for such a simple site. So I poked around with the dev tools and noticed ...
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Is "The Loop" covered by SO's Privacy and GDPR policies?
SO's "GDPR Policy" states in part
we describe how we collect and use your data, and how we use technologies like cookies to understand how we can better help developers.
However, The Loop's first ...
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"You’re receiving this email because you are subscribed to The Overflow Newsletter from Stack Overflow." - are you sure?
This morning I received a spam email from SE ("The Overflow - issue #1..."). At the bottom it says that "You’re receiving this email because you are subscribed to The Overflow Newsletter from Stack ...
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Is embedding arbitrary external images GDPR compliant?
Currently, SE allows user to embed arbitrary images (from HTTPS sources) into posts and into comments in chat. The consequence of this is that whoever controls the server those images are hosted on ...
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Will Stack Exchange respect EU's "right to be forgotten"?
If a citizen of EU would request all his questions and answers to be deleted from all Stack Exchange sites, would that request be carried out?
I'm not just talking about account deletion, where ...
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