Deleting account

[dark_gh0st_b0y]

DonFerrari said:

dark_gh0st_b0y said:

I'm not a lawyer but this could very well be illegal under EU and UK law, and I hope the website admins and owners have considered this, since the site is accessible from Europe

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/my-rights/can-i-ask-company-delete-my-personal-data_en
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/

personally, I believe all this anonymity damages the internet and the society in general, but since anonymity is what we have and on that basis people post, it has to be respected

to be honest I would support a global online identification system anytime - that would decrease hate speech and also safeguard children from harmful exposure to bullying, deception and premature content

Personal data is defined as...

"The data subjects are identifiable if they can be directly or indirectly identified, especially by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one of several special characteristics, which expresses the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, commercial, cultural or social identity of these natural persons. In practice, these also include all data which are or can be assigned to a person in any kind of way. For example, the telephone, credit card or personnel number of a person, account data, number plate, appearance, customer number or address are all personal data."

I don't think any of this data is provided to VGChartz unless the person posts it voluntarily, and nobody has to provide it in order to use the site. And VGChartz isn't making any data available to my knowledge unless a user posts it. Pretty sure the personal data laws are more for data you provide to a website in expectation it will be private. Otherwise, it would be impossible to comply. If you post something personal, and then someone quotes it in their reply, what exactly can be done? Unless VGC is responsible for somehow scrubbing everything personal you said that might have been quoted.

Not a lawyer either, but I am a law student. I don't really see any liability here. 

indirectly identified online identifier of these natural persons.....

This together can make it a little complicated for even sites that don`t ask anything personal.

woa, so that makes the definition very broad, maybe that could really complicate things, combined with

Art. 17 GDPR Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)

1. The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:
    
   1. the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
      
      
   2. the data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1), or point (a) of Article 9(2), and where there is no other legal ground for the processing;

Processing

The term "processing" is very broad. It essentially means anything that is done to, or with, personal data (including simply collecting, storing or deleting those data). This definition is significant because it clarifies the fact that EU data protection law is likely to apply wherever an organisation does anything that involves or affects personal data.

https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/
https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/personal-data/
https://www.whitecase.com/publications/article/chapter-5-key-definitions-unlocking-eu-general-data-protection-regulation