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Private Deleted Messages from 10 years ago have reappeared

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  • #152
    JayRoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭JayRoc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117721325#Comment_117721325

    To be fair... Odhran said at the time, and I quote: "we will be deleting all old Private messages that are older than 30 days".



  • #153
    JayRoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭JayRoc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117724731#Comment_117724731

    Any additional info/contradictions came much later



  • #154
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,608 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117724672#Comment_117724672
    https://giphy.com/gifs/nehumanesociety-funny-dog-3o7527pa7qs9kCG78A

    Shhhhhh, don't be asking difficult questions! 🤣🤣🤣

    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #155
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,337 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117724672#Comment_117724672

    You would hope that person is fine tuning their CV for the next role right now. Lots of jobs going in hospitality I hear, they might be better suited to that than a DPO



  • #156
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117724728#Comment_117724728

    If people want to do that, that is their prerogative, but it should be remembered that actions are not without consequences. Tying the site admin up in data access requests, even if they are legally entitled to them will certainly hasten the demise of the site.

    Maybe that's the goal, but it would seem strange behaviour from a community that apparently values this resource.



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  • #157
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,805 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117725449#Comment_117725449

    Thanks for re-iterating my last paragraph 👍



  • #158
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117727116#Comment_117727116

    Indeed. Your last paragraph wouldn't have needed reiteration if you hadn't written an instructional post on how to collapse the site.

    I'd liken it to walking past a bunch of hooligans looting a shop and loudly declaring, "it's a good job they haven't barricaded the approach road otherwise the guards wouldn't be able to come"



  • #159
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,938 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117727278#Comment_117727278

    And you are helping him by repeating it, well done.



  • #160
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,805 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117727278#Comment_117727278

    You posited a situation regarding PMs in the post of yours that I originally replied to.

    I outlined that procedure and the legally binding timelines surrounding it. That any request places a burden on boards is of course a concern.

    But, given the haphazard mode that boards.ie approached the migration, the privacy concerns around it and their constant efforts to lay blame for their own compliance issues? It is an issue of their own making.

    Again, I have no interest in advising anyone to take the frankly heavy handed approach of submitting SARs for the sole purpose of overloading the admin staff or forcing Boards into further breaches of GDPR compliance.

    Further, my reply and my "instructional post" were in response to your musing that...

    I wouldn't hold my breath. Given that the site has no money and tons of problems and the crude simple solution solves the problem, I'd bet that you won't see these PM's back for months if ever.


    In fact I'd bet that if people really need old PMs that they'll only be available on request.



  • #161
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,805 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117727295#Comment_117727295

    Helping who? To do what?



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  • #162
    amen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭amen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117724731#Comment_117724731

    Why exactly are they deleting ons older than 30 days ? Is it all PMs or just deleted PMs? I have some PMs older than 30 days that I want to keep. Why would boards delete these ?



  • #163
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,608 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117730660#Comment_117730660

    Your PMs should be restored now. Odhran posted to say any you had deleted are gone, but those you kept should be back now.

    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #164
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    So how do we delete these PMs containing personal information which has been moved outside of the EU?



  • #165
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,196 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Has there really ever been a true 'delete'? ...or merely hidden from users sight, with all bits off data (whether "deleted" by both sender and receiver, or not) stored somewhere on the site?

    In fairness, the old button should have been named 'hide' rather than 'delete'... Atleast 'leave the discussion' doesn't imply any false promises of hard deletion, when there is no (proven) intent to dump the data.

    By storing it, there is an inherent vulnerability for the info to be accessed by any number of IT platform workers, even though boards mods/admins say they, themselves don't take advantage of our privacy.

    If we ask for our data to be truly removed, yet it remains stored - then our private info must be deemed as some sort of value to the business, if not potential monetary gain of harvesting, tabulating, marketing, et al... does it not?

    Post edited by Deja Boo on


  • #166
    feelings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭feelings


    What about PMs from deleted accounts? Are those messages actually deleted or marked "invisible"?



  • #167
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,375 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Rather makes a mockery of the 'your inbox is full' warnings that used to come up on old boards if the messages were never actually deleted...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #168
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    So have boards actually told us who has access to our PMs at this stage.



  • #169
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,875 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    All your boards are belong to us.

    🙂

    Not your ornery onager



  • #170
    FFVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    Promised update never given


    Remember that folks



  • #171
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,407 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117730689#Comment_117730689

    Have just caught up with the thread as I haven't been spending any time on boards since the migration. Just had a look in my inbox. There's a PM there from 2014 which I would have deleted some time in 2014. There's also a few more from earlier this year. So clearly they haven't deleted all the PMs.



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  • #172
    thejuggler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    It doesn't appear to be possible to delete any PMs/messages from my account. Was this option removed during migration?



  • #173
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Certainly makes a mockery of being told my inbox was full all those times.



  • #174
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,375 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117762315#Comment_117762315

    Cant delete just 'leave conversation'

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #175
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,875 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117763251#Comment_117763251

    Which we all hope means the Conversation is GONE for good. Maybe @Boards.ie: Niamh could clarify?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #176
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have deleted private messages from six years ago now showing up in my messages.

    Are these not being deleted by the admins? I can't see a way of deleting them myself, though clearly that doesn't - and has never - happened anyway. Saying information is deleted after however long is obviously incorrect - the only question is whether that's a lie or a mistake. There's no coming back from this. How can anyone trust management when it's such a spectacular mess, and users misled?

    I'd like some reassurance that our information is deleted permanently when/if we close our accounts and/or anonymize our content.



  • #177
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,875 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    >can't see a way of deleting them myself

    There is a Leave Conversation button at the bottom which seems to be the new 'Delete' function.

    No confirmation yet as to whether the Conversation is hard-deleted or not. @Boards.ie: Niamh ?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #178
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,912 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117794724#Comment_117794724

    I very much doubt it. from what i can figure out the people who are in the conversation don't "own" it. it exists outside their account. If they leave the conversation still exists.



  • #179
    mindhorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭mindhorn


    I'm missing all of my PMs bar one. I presume this is the same for everyone else? I guess they're gone for good?



  • #180
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,805 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Any update from the ODPC on this yet?



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  • #181
    BringBackDav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭BringBackDav


    Boards is a free service and nobody is forcing you to use it. They don't owe you anything. If you're not happy, leave. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.



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