GDPR tooling on Discourse?

From a corporate side, anonymizing the account was accepted by both our Data Privacy Team, and the internal Worker’s union/council. Which aspects do you think it doesn’t adhere to?

Not really. Personal data is data about you specifically - name, email address etc. It’s mostly about identifiers – hence why anonymising is effective.

If those notes are confidential, for example he’s been writing secret recipies in his mod-notes then that’s a different topic. In such an example he would have no case because he’s knowingly misused the mod-notes, and the mod notes by definition belong to the forum.

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