What are GDPR Accounts?

VedanshS933

What are GDPR Accounts? I can't understand

Last edited by VedanshS933 (Jan. 27, 2022 09:03:58)

god286

There's a regulation in Europe called GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which does more things for user privacy.
Some highlights:

People can request data deletion of their account
Those cookie banners you get on some sites? GDPR requires users to be notified when cookies are stored.
More but I'm too lazy to search it up

The first one I will go into more.
People can request that their account and all their information is deleted from Scratch. Comments, username, forum posts, projects, join date, literally everything and anything that they made. When the account is deleted, the username is changed to gdpr + some number (probably the number of GDPRed accounts). Their join date is set to a date before Scratch had started development, their profile picture and projects are gone, and all of their data is gone to comply with the GDPR rules.

Last edited by god286 (Jan. 27, 2022 09:04:41)

VedanshS933

god286 wrote:
There's a regulation in Europe called GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which does more things for user privacy.
Some highlights:
People can request data deletion of their account
Those cookie banners you get on some sites? GDPR requires users to be notified when cookies are stored.
More but I'm too lazy to search it up
The first one I will go into more.
People can request that their account and all their information is deleted from Scratch. Comments, username, forum posts, projects, join date, literally everything and anything that they made. When the account is deleted, the username is changed to gdpr + some number (probably the number of GDPRed accounts). Their join date is set to a date before Scratch had started development, their profile picture and projects are gone, and all of their data is gone to comply with the GDPR rules.

Ok Thanks,
so that is why there is 1 gdpr, https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/users/gdpr0000001/
But them why is there an 17 GDPR's Forum Post and profile pic but that profile is not there? https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/2804/?page=1#post-14811

god286

VedanshS933 wrote:
But them why is there an 17 GDPR's Forum Post and profile pic but that profile is not there? https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/2804/?page=1#post-14811

That's probably just a glitch with the system or something? I'm not sure. It might be on the Scratch Wiki though.

VedanshS933

god286 wrote:
VedanshS933 wrote:
But them why is there an 17 GDPR's Forum Post and profile pic but that profile is not there? https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/2804/?page=1#post-14811
That's probably just a glitch with the system or something? I'm not sure. It might be on the Scratch Wiki though.

Ok, Where in the Scratch Wiki? https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/GDPR_Accounts

Maximouse

VedanshS933 wrote:
But them why is there an 17 GDPR's Forum Post and profile pic but that profile is not there? https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/2804/?page=1#post-14811

The account is deleted. Deleting an account doesn't delete its comments or forum posts – the Scratch Team would need to do that manually if they wanted to.

jvvg

The Wiki has a page on GDPR accounts that should explain what you need.

VedanshS933

Bring up my topic

IsabellaMadri_gal

VedanshS933 wrote:
Bring up my topic

Do you mean bump

hred2010

god286 wrote:
There's a regulation in Europe called “GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)” which does more things for user privacy.
So that would explain why Scratchers like grpd000001 account was created before scratch came out. When it was still in develoment, they (ST) needed something to test it out

hred2010

hred2010 wrote:
god286 wrote:
There's a regulation in Europe called “GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)” which does more things for user privacy.
So that would explain why Scratchers like grpd000001 account was created before scratch came out. When it was still in develoment, they (ST) needed something to test it out
As well as why you can't follow them normally

TheSuperGumballFan01

I think you can't follow gdpr accounts is because they're really old. It was made before the release date.

Spaceboy1010

TheSuperGumballFan01 wrote:
I think you can't follow gdpr accounts is because they're really old. It was made before the release date.

No, they weren't made before Scratch 1.0. Whenever an account gets deleted with GDPR, it deletes all of the data. Even the join date. So it defaults to Y2K as the join date for some reason.

Also, you can follow them: https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/359919416/

Last edited by Spaceboy1010 (Feb. 23, 2022 22:58:17)

VedanshS933

Thanks! To prevent necroposting I am closing it!

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