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I have a member who left. How can i delete all of her messages in a bulk delete? It is very time consuming to delete one by one.
Thanks Anita
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Chris Jones
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 09:06 PM, Anita L wrote:
How can i delete all of her messages in a bulk delete? It is very time consuming to delete one by one.Is there any real need to do this? (If so, what is it?) Chris
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When there is a turnover of a Board, for example, it would be useful to delete chitchat from previous members.
I have been wondering too about the GDPR - "The GDPR is the most comprehensive EU data privacy law in decades, and went into effect on May 25, 2018." I can export my account. Couldn't that be linked to a delete function? Or perhaps Delete My Account could do that. https://groups.io/static/compliance Frances
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 2:36 PM Frances <frances@...> wrote: When there is a turnover of a Board, for example, it would be useful to delete chitchat from previous members. We don't currently have this function. I have been wondering too about the GDPR - "The GDPR is the most comprehensive EU data privacy law in decades, and went into effect on May 25, 2018." I can export my account. Couldn't that be linked to a delete function? This was a scenario I discussed with my GDPR lawyers back when I was going through this. From what I remember, it was basically that the law was a bit unclear but that my lawyers interpreted it as I did not have to delete someone's messages in a group when they deleted their account. It's impractical to be able to remove all traces of someone who has participated in a discussion group. IANAL and all that... Mark
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It appears that the EU agrees with you although I would have preferred they hadn't sided with Google.
Ken
2Ch 7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from
heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
From: main@beta.groups.io [mailto:main@beta.groups.io]
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Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:49 PM To: main@beta.groups.io Subject: Re: [beta] delete old messages
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 2:36 PM Frances <frances@...> wrote:
We don't currently have this function.
This was a scenario I discussed with my GDPR lawyers back when I was going through this. From what I remember, it was basically that the law was a bit unclear but that my lawyers interpreted it as I did not have to delete someone's messages in a group when they deleted their account. It's impractical to be able to remove all traces of someone who has participated in a discussion group.
IANAL and all that...
Mark
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Chris Jones
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 03:26 AM, Ken Schweizer included this link:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49808208Now (like Mark) IANAL, and the material in the link is a News Bulletin not "Qualified Legal Opinion", but taken at face value the right to be forgotten relates to data about a person, not things they have posted on Groups.io or other social media. As such they would have no right to assume or expect that such material can or will be deleted on request, and of course while material they have originated might be deleted, where that material is quoted by others those quotations and their attribution will remain firmly in place. As recently mentioned on the GMF subscribers can delete their own posts unhindered, so I would suggest that anyone wishing to have their posts deleted should be encouraged to set about doing it themselves. As far as I can see there is no reason for believing that a group owner or moderator must trawl through message archives removing posts submitted by any named individual just because they ask for it to be done. I see no reason for an owner or moderator to make a rod for their own back. Chris
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And of course all those posts are in countless email inboxes and web
mail of which groups.io and moderators have no control. It is totally impossible. Dave On 25 Sep 2019 at 4:00, Chris Jones via Groups.Io wrote: Now (like Mark) IANAL, and the material in the link is a News Bulletin http://davesergeant.com
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 04:00 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
the right to be forgotten relates to data about a person, not things they have posted on Groups.io or other social media.Exactly. Not to mention that users explicitly grant groups.io the right to post their content forever. Coming from the other side of the discussion, this is why - and we've been through this argument/discussion many times before - I think group owners should be allowed to disable message deletion by members. IANAL but it's easy reading to see that Groups.io is under no legal obligation to delete user content, whether the user ask for the deletion or not, whether they've left a group or not, or under any other circumstances. Groups.io would be under legal obligation to remove personal information *about* users posted by *other* users, if the posted-about user requests the deletion. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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(This is the point where Shal says: "That's why I think the TOU should be changed so that the permission is not granted in perpetuity." And that's where I say, "Changing the TOU to explicitly allow message deletion at the request of members would be hopelessly impractical.")
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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J,
And that's where I say, "Changing the TOU to explicitly allow messageThat's a ludicrous answer. a) Yahoo Groups already had language limiting the license granted to the service. Mark may not want that exact language, but the TOU has already been changed at least once, so there clearly is a practical means for editing it. b) A practical mechanism for message deletion already exists. A practical mechanism for finding all messages by this member already exists. All that is required for a bulk feature is to marry those two capabilities. Perhaps using a UI similar to the checkboxes present on the /topics-test page. c) Practicality is Mark's job. Granted that (b) doesn't cover quotes of the subject member appearing in other members' messages, nor does it cover subject messages stored in other members' email interfaces. But I never asked for either of those things. Shal
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Shal,
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If it’s so ludicrous, then why do you think Mark hasn’t changed the TOU yet? What Y!G does, or attempts to do (we don’t know whether successfully or unsuccessfully), is irrelevant IMHO.
On Sep 25, 2019, at 8:28 AM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@gmail.com> wrote: --
J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu
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J,
If it’s so ludicrous, then why do you think Mark hasn’t changed theHe may not want to. Or he may not have decided to do it yet. Neither of those suggests that it is "hopelessly impractical" to do. What Y!G does, or attempts to do (we don’t know whether successfullyA worked example demonstrates that an idea is not "hopelessly impractical". Shal
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 09:02 AM, Shal Farley wrote:
A worked example demonstrates that an idea is not "hopelessly impractical".Disagree. Are you saying you can provide an example showing it's practical? That's not logical. Or are you saying I should provide an example to show it's not practical? Not necessary. You'd have to be able to guarantee users that at any point in time, they could request their content be removed from any and all groups, regardless of whether they'd left any or all of those groups or even groups.io as a whole, whether a week, a month, or a decade later. I think that's pretty clearly impractical. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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J, Disagree. Are you saying you can provide an example showing it's practical? I simply said that the Yahoo TOS (pre-Verizon, anyway) provides example text that limits the license granted to the service. That limitation means that if the member (or Yahoo) removes their content then Yahoo would no longer have the right to display it. Yahoo treated that language as requiring that members be able to remove their content. You'd have to be able to guarantee users that at any point in time, they could request their content be removed from any and all groups, regardless of whether they'd left any or all of those groups or even groups.io as a whole, whether a week, a month, or a decade later. I think that's pretty clearly impractical. Yahoo did not find it to be impractical. I know of cases where Customer Care intervened to require that members be allowed back into groups in order to delete their messages, and also cases where Customer Care did the deletion on behalf of the former member if the group managers refused or were unresponsive. Shal
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Shal,
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Being able to provide one, two, or 100 examples where it was practical obviously does not prove its practical in general. The rest (“yahoo did not find it impractical”) is either imagination or hearsay. There’s no reason to try to duplicate here policies that exist in yahoo just because they exist there.
On Sep 25, 2019, at 10:24 AM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:
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J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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J,
But it does show that it is not "hopelessly impractical" in general.
It is hearsay, but I've no reason to doubt the members of Y!GMF who reported receiving such demands, or those who reported having such intercession on their own behalf.
There's also no reason to reject a good policy just because you don't like the cited example of its use in practice. Shal
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 11:03 AM, Shal Farley wrote:
That's not what you need to show. It is "hopelessly impractical" in the sense that there will always be cases where it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to implement. To make a promise in the TOU, that promise must be possible to uphold in ALL cases. Not just the few that you pull out of a hat. This has zero to do with my not liking your examples (in fact, they were TLDR, because it doesn't even matter what they are). I don't need to show that it's "hopelessly impractical" in all cases. I only need to show that there will always be cases, no matter how many or few, where it would be hopelessly impractical to implement ("user leaves, requests deletion of all posts 10 years later"; etc.). -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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To quote Mark, in this thread:
"my lawyers interpreted it as I did not have to delete someone's messages in a group when they deleted their account. It's impractical to be able to remove all traces of someone who has participated in a discussion group." Impractical, period. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Dave Wade
Since when was something being "hopelessly impractical” ever a reason for the EU not to mandate it… … also if you delete your Facebook account all posts, likes, comments will be removed. If Facebook can manage it groups.io can.
Dave (Not I am not commenting on the actually legality of keeping the info)
From: main@beta.groups.io <main@beta.groups.io> On Behalf Of J_Catlady
Sent: 25 September 2019 19:33 To: main@beta.groups.io Subject: Re: [beta] delete old messages
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 11:03 AM, Shal Farley wrote:
That's not what you need to show. It is "hopelessly impractical" in the sense that there will always be cases where it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to implement. To make a promise in the TOU, that promise must be possible to uphold in ALL cases. Not just the few that you pull out of a hat. This has zero to do with my not liking your examples (in fact, they were TLDR, because it doesn't even matter what they are). Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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The EU is not requiring it.
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On Sep 25, 2019, at 12:06 PM, Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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