If you're in the EU and quit gamefaqs, dont forget your right to be forgotten

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Current Events » If you're in the EU and quit gamefaqs, dont forget your right to be forgotten
s0nicfan
04/18/2024
10:25 AM
#1
https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/

Tl;Dr - when you close your account if you live in the EU you have the right to demand that they permanently remove any and all personal information from their system. The link above explains how to fill out the digital form. Don't leave fandom a scrap of information that they can use to monetize.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
ironman2009
04/18/2024
10:26 AM
#2
Fandom sold that info awhile ago m8
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Crimson_Corsair
04/18/2024
10:27 AM
#3
They about to put a hit out on you mang
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Karovorak
04/18/2024
10:28 AM
#4
s0nicfan posted...
https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/

Tl;Dr - when you close your account if you live in the EU you have the right to demand that they permanently remove any and all personal information from their system. The link above explains how to fill out the digital form. Don't leave fandom a scrap of information that they can use to monetize.

First of all, you should ask them to hand over all the data they have about you.

This gives them some more work, and could be actually interesting.
Planning is the process of replacing chance with error.
WingsOfGood
04/18/2024
10:29 AM
#5
You really think they have it all setup for this? Like you post on some obscure board gamefaqs is never gonna delete it.
s0nicfan
04/18/2024
10:31 AM
#6
Crimson_Corsair posted...
They about to put a hit out on you mang

Yesterday was the topic about making sure that you disable your tracking cookies. Today is about your right to be forgotten. If anybody else has any suggestions, my plan is to just keep posting things that aren't a TOS violation but are very explicitly against fandom's business in protest of all their dumbass decisions.

After all this time, I'm not going to go out with anything lame like an account suicide, but I'll absolutely be a pain in the ass to corporate until they shut it all down.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
s0nicfan
04/18/2024
10:33 AM
#7
WingsOfGood posted...
You really think they have it all setup for this? Like you post on some obscure board gamefaqs is never gonna delete it.

I don't think they do, but the penalties for failing to comply are in the ballpark of 10 million euros, so if fandom wants to be heavy-handed and force down policy on us that nobody wanted then I'm perfectly happy letting them deal with EU bureaucracy.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Karovorak
04/18/2024
10:37 AM
#8
WingsOfGood posted...
You really think they have it all setup for this? Like you post on some obscure board gamefaqs is never gonna delete it.

It's not that hard to delete this stuff, especially because everything is connected.

And they have to fulfill all the EU laws and put the legal ribbons on, so there is that too.

https://www.fandom.com/digital-services-act
Planning is the process of replacing chance with error.
teep_
04/18/2024
12:01 PM
#9
Tag

Thanks TC
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s0nicfan
04/19/2024
10:33 AM
#10
Friday bump

Edit: also, keep in mind that this advice holds for anyone who is banned. So if you happen to know somebody who no longer has an account who lives in the EU make sure they know that they have these rights too.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
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