New GDPR-related community account features

[Marjo]

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.

 

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.

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.

[pgn]

 I am only too familiar with json, alas, @MI5.

Notepad++ on PC, and it opens on download in some native app from Chrome on my Android OP3T:

[Cleoriff]

This is what I get on PC using FF....I haven't cropped any of it. This is exactly what's shown.

Not sure if it would be any different on my PC using Chrome...

[Cleoriff]

Absolutely no idea why Skype is mentioned. I have never used it? Also what's all the reference to Facebook?

So basically....I am none the wiser...

[pgn]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

Absolutely no idea why Skype is mentioned. I have never used it? Also what's all the reference to Facebook?

So basically....I am none the wiser...

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Skype and FB are all fields you can fill in in your Profile, if you wish. Each field shows the field name, a colon, the field value, a comma, and so on until all fields in your profile are displayed.

Turn on Wrap in your notepad settings from the drop-down menu at the top of your notepad window. 

 

A bit like the "gender" field in my screenshot, intentionally left blank 

Like I said a few posts back, O2 "could have" presented the info in your profile in a clearer fashion. 

[Cleoriff]

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@pgn wrote:

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A bit like the "gender" field in my screenshot, intentionally left blank 

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Yes, so is mine

Mind you, I went for a hospital appointment today and I was asked if I was 'male, female or other'

I suppose it's all PC but.......

[pgn]

I wonder if the know how wrong they were in only offering you 3 options, @Cleoriff?

Gender Spectrum

[Cleoriff]

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@pgn wrote:

I wonder if the know how wrong they were in only offering you 3 options, @Cleoriff?

Gender Spectrum

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It's the NHS @pgn. They haven't got time to be that specific

[jonsie]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@pgn wrote:

I wonder if the know how wrong they were in only offering you 3 options, @Cleoriff?

Gender Spectrum

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It's the NHS @pgn. They haven't got time to be that specific

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Living in Thailand I've met or possibly been in bed with any/all of those gender manifestations.....

[Marjo]

Hi guys, thanks for all your comments!

The abovementioned .json file you can download is a machine-readable format of your data as specified in GDPR data portability if you wish to transfer your data into another IT system.

[pgn]

I wonder what it is about Thailand that so many different genders are expressed there, @jonsie?  I've only been there once, but the people I was meeting there said almost anything can be got there, not that I tried it - our evening visit to Nana Plaza was eye-opening enough for me!