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New GDPR-related community account features

Marjo
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Hey everyone,


If you haven’t heard about GDPR, where have you been for the past 3 months (or longer)! No doubt you’ve received an influx of emails recently from companies telling you about the changes. We’ve made a few changes on the O2 Community to ensure you have easy access to your O2 Community information – such as downloading your post history, clearing your IP address history or closing your O2 Community account.


What is GDPR?
GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. Coming into effect on 25th May 2018, this is a new regulation introduced by the European Union which creates a legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information of individuals within the European Union.


What does this mean for you in the O2 Community?
We’ve introduced three new functionalities which give our O2 Community members several options to control their personal data. These include close your Community account, Delete the IP addresses you've used to access the O2 Community and extract your content and personal information:

 

Close your account

You now have the option to close your O2 Community account. This is a permanent closure and will remove all your personal information from the O2 Community, including your user name, password, email address and IP addresses. Any content that you've posted will remain on the O2 Community but will no longer be linked to your user name.
To close your account navigate to My Settings > Personal Profile > Close account. Once you select this option you will be asked to confirm your account closure. This will be a permanent closure and if you wish to use the O2 Community again you must re-register.

Lithium Close Account Feature 

Delete the IP addresses used to access the O2 Community
Using this option means you can clear the history of IP addresses used to access the O2 Community. To do this go to My Settings > Personal Profile > Personal Information > Delete IP Addresses.


Download your personal information
Lastly, you now have the ability to download a file containing all your personal information held on the O2 Community and all the content you've created in this space. If you wish to access your content or personal information, go to My Settings > Personal Profile > Personal Information and select either My Community content or My Personal Information at the bottom right of the page.

 

Lithium Delete IP Addresses Feature

 

Delete IP Addresses Feature

 


The above options give you more flexibility with managing the data held by the O2 Community. If you have any questions about this or need help with any of the new functionality please let us know.

 

 

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jonsie
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Great big welcome TO GDPR on the Community. Some great additions there 😃

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My god that's a lot of ip addresses stored
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At least now people can actually delete there account permantly how many people wanted this feature etc 

 

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That's excellent news @Marjo...(particularly about access to our own personal info). God I'm afraid to look joy

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Now how good is that? Great news.

I dread looking, though, I think I'd be horrified to learn things I had forgotten open_mouth
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Not that I want to, but I don't have the option to delete my account?
Also, downloading the personal info seems to be a .json file - what type of file is that?

Scratch that, notepad will open it.

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@MI5 wrote:

Not that I want to, but I don't have the option to delete my account?
Also, downloading the personal info seems to be a .json file - what type of file is that?

Scratch that, notepad will open it.


Haha, they've got you, "trapped in a community website" rofl

 

Actually, the .json thing is worrying - Facebook gave you a nice zip file with several common file types in it, and I think Twitter does something similar. It's not too difficult to have it come down as something wordpad or notepad natively understands, really. Must go take a closer look... 

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@MI5 wrote:

Not that I want to, but I don't have the option to delete my account?
Also, downloading the personal info seems to be a .json file - what type of file is that?

Scratch that, notepad will open it.


Well yes it does... sort of.... I get this

.Personal info.JPG

Then when I click on open with....I choose Notepad.... it opens and get a load of gibberish.

In between random numbers I can see the words Facebook, Skype.....but nothing which tells me about my personal info. Unless I was a codebreaker...fearful

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