# 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: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/providing-data-for-gdpr/83595/5 "2018-03-22T19:15:09Z")

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> [@GDPR and anonymizing personal data](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gdpr-and-anonymizing-personal-data/72103/47):
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> Most obvious thing - work for @sam I guess! - is to provide a one click ‘Data Access Request’ that does not need admin intervention. As far as I understand it, the GDPR requires data controllers to provide all personal information on request

That is correct. There currently already is a ‘Download All’ button in your profile. Problem is, it doesn’t contain all personal information, it just contains the posts you have made.

The right to be forgotten would indeed be accomplished sufficiently with the delete and anonymize functions. But they can only be performed by an admin, if I’m correct.  
On one hand you don’t want to encourage them, on the other hand it would help if this would at least be something that could be _requested_ from within the user interface. Right now you have to _know_ that you need to message an admin about this.

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