Questions tagged [data]
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Does a company have an obligation to attempt to answer a GDPR request if the requestor may not have provided sufficient identification information?
An individual has asked to provide information on his personal data which is stored by a company (GDPR). He has only provided his name and surname. He has signed the document electronically, i.e., we ...
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Locally stored PII: Are we a GDPR Data Processor?
We are a charity that uses software to keep names and addresses of it's members. Email addresses and Emergency Contacts.
We use a piece of software that is NOT cloud based. It is installed on the ...
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EU Data Act - Receive access logs of managed wifi access points from service provider
As an employee of company A I would like to statistically analyse access logs of wifi access points, which are located in offices of company A, but managed by a service provider (company B). company B ...
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Is analysis of personal data without saving considered data processing?
One of GDPR's main topics is processing data. Article 4 tells:
(2) ‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or ...
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Standards for data availability for internal employees
Our organization possesses a lot of personal data, and when we provide the data to external partners we are very strict on complying with all the data confidentiality rules, recommendations, etc. The ...
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Do we know the false positive rate of judge and jury decisions in the Post Office Horizon case?
In the UK it is currently in the news about the fallout from the Post Office Horizon case. My understanding is that all those accused are now considered innocent. This is a relatively rare example ...
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Is it illegal to simultaneously run instances of a software more than I physically own?
I own old gaming consoles such as the Nintendo DS. The consoles have aged significantly and they have a hard time recognizing legit cartridges, so I dumped the contents of dozens of carts on a 3rd ...
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Is it legal to 3D scan anything and how are 'shapes' protected?
I'm surprised there are almost no questions on this site about 3D scanning and its legal implications on patents, copyrights, whatever laws or regulation apply on it.
As of 2023, 3D printing is ...
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Legality of Using Unofficial API
I have discovered a mobile app's backend API through reverse engineering. The public can access this API and it does not require specific authorization, however, it is not documented and it is not an ...
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Does the Colorado Privacy Act apply to churches with memberships (ex: Jehovah’s Witnesses)?
Suppose a person living in Colorado is a registered member of a church. In this church, certain “blessings” are considered contingent on your membership. Membership is recorded on a digital system.
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How does GDPR's right to erasure apply to deduplicated storage?
I am trying to understand GDPR's right to erasure (and principle of storage limitation) in the following case:
Company A offers a online data storage service that is intended to be used by the users ...
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Is it illegal for a firm to train an AI model on a CC BY-SA 4.0 corpus and make a commercial use of it without distributing the model under CC BY-SA?
https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/388551/178179 mentions that SE will force some firms to pay to be allowed to train an AI model on the SE data dump (CC BY-SA licensed) and make a commercial use of it ...
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How can you make a fresh new translation of the bible without running into copyright problems?
I have been looking for open source versions of the bible written in Hebrew, with annotations, such as the literal english meaning of each Hebrew term, the definition of each Hebrew term, the part of ...
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Can two or more different entities simultaneously be data controllers for the same data?
Suppose Alice is a customer of a business ACME who holds data on her like email correspondence. ACME uses a third party to manage their email, suppose Fastmail.fm. Fastmail.fm in turn delegates their ...
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Is a sent email in someone else’s inbox subject to data subject rights of the sender?
Suppose Bob emails Alice, and both use Hotmail for their e-mail provider. Bob then deletes the message from his sent mail folder. Could Bob issue a subject access request (SAR) to Hotmail for the ...