- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- fediverse@kbin.social
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- fediverse@kbin.social
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.
Usernames are not PII…the GDPR only applies if someone is making money from the service. It does not mean just because your site is free but hosts ads or sells user data it’s exempt. Lemmy instances do none of this.
What do you think an online identifier is then? And why would the GDPR only apply if there is money made? It specifically says in multiple places free services also count.
https://www.ibm.com/topics/pii#:~:text=Personally identifiable information (PII) is,email address or phone number.
Usernames are not and never have been considered pii
The GDPR states it clearly that the company/entity has to be collecting pii or selling something to the person. Lemmy does neither of these.
How is IBM authoritative on this subject? And even so, this article doesn’t say that usernames are not PII, it even indirectly says it is indirect PII.
Here’s another random company’s page saying usernames are PII: https://www.keepersecurity.com/blog/2023/06/14/what-is-personally-identifiable-information-pii/
The GDPR says it clearly and explicitly that:
Usernames that are used in an internal network are, because they’re linked to pii, a public username is not pii.
And where did you read that? If anything, public usernames are easier to correlate to form identities.