# GDPR and anonymizing personal data

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/gdpr-and-anonymizing-personal-data/72103>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Tags:** gdpr, privacy\
**Created:** [2017年十月15日 12:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gdpr-and-anonymizing-personal-data/72103 "2017-10-15T12:40:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![sbenthall](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sbenthall/32/125683_2.png) [@sbenthall](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sbenthall)\
**Post date:** [2018年十一月30日 21:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gdpr-and-anonymizing-personal-data/72103/73 "2018-11-30T21:14:33Z")

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This is a helpful and comprehensive thread. It’s great to see how seriously Discourse is taking GDPR compliance.

I wanted to write in because I noticed that for the recently installed Discourse instance my community is useful, it is still using the default Privacy Policy that was last edited in 2013.

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/55945ec7c8f975d1ac3e1695b0d8779b28823cfa/config/locales/server.en.yml#L3656>

Because it hasn’t been edited since GDPR came under consideration, I am concerned that this default setting is not in compliance. I think that among other things, GDPR changed the way privacy policies are formatted in ways that are now internationally standard.

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