# Providing data for GDPR

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/providing-data-for-gdpr/83595
**Category:** Community Building
**Tags:** gdpr, privacy
**Created:** [March 22, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/providing-data-for-gdpr/83595 "2018-03-22T18:36:10Z")
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### Author: ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/providing-data-for-gdpr/83595/13 "2018-03-22T20:14:35Z")

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> [@GDPR and anonymizing personal data](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gdpr-and-anonymizing-personal-data/72103/56):
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> Under the GDPR, providing a copy of the data is required.

Do we have clarity about what “the data” includes? I see two extreme possibilities:

1. only the personal data (e.g. the name, IP address, etc
2. all of the above plus all data somehow linked to these (e.g. how much time that person has spent reading each and every post on the forum).

I doubt that either of these extremes is the correct interpretation of “the data”, and I hope the “truth” doesn’t lie too close to #2.

BTW: To keep these discussions as focused as possible, I’d like to suggest that someone moves this latest topic digression about _providing_ data into a new topic (and tags it #gdpr).

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