For questions regarding ownership and control of digital data. This data is often held by a third-party technology platform, either on a user's behalf or for the platform's own purposes. Related tags: [data-protection], [privacy], [gdpr], [ccpa]
Questions tagged [data-ownership]
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Can you host a version of Wikipedia on your own domain and charge for it?
I am reading through these notes, trying to piece together a picture of what the rules/laws are regarding Wikipedia…
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Facebook vs GDPR - Private Messages I sent to others will never be deleted/erased from Facebook servers
I asked this question to Facebook:
I would like to know how can I permanently delete private messages
from both sides of the conversation. For example, conversations I had
in the past with other Facebook users that I don't want them to be
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Restrictions on machine learning models trained on materials licensed with creative commons
My question is somewhat similar to this one, but I am interested in a case where there is no explicit allowance for models that are unable to reconstruct their training data.
To be concrete let's focus on training data licensed with creative commons…
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Does the German GDPR require storing the data in a German datacenter for a tele-health company?
I co-founded a tele-health startup, we are expanding to Germany,
we have gone through the GDPR, and implemented most of it, however, we didn't quite understand the data residency part and found conflicting information online.
Should the data be…
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Who owns the rights to the questions on Stack Exchange?
I asked a question here a year ago and this was removed. Who owns the rights to the question, and can it be republished?
On what grounds could it have been removed?
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Can you copyright data?
I was reading this link and it says at the bottom that:
The panel data are copyrighted by the Initiative on Global Markets and are being analyzed for an article to appear in a leading peer-reviewed journal.
I also read that data is not…
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Are there ways of storing personal data beyond standard GDPR limitations?
So GDPR harmonizes legal stance of personal data in the EU — mainly by limiting storage time of certain data, and by providing citizens with a procedure to request deletion of their personal data.
However, there seem to be some exceptions: I suppose…
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Under GDPR right of access, do I have the right to receive a copy of scoring sheets / evaluation forms after a structured job interview?
Under the GDPR right of access, what rights do I have to employer assessment of myself in the role of a job applicant after a structured job interview? Presumably, in a structured job interview process, the recruitment panel makes some sort of…
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Distributing machine learning models (e.g., word embeddings) based on non-sharable datasets
Many corpora (= datasets containing texts) are not freely available and/or their license do not allow redistribution and/or commercial use and/or require share-alike. For example, the Linguistic Data Consortium is notorious for selling corpora at…
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Is it illegal to fetch a picture from another phone remotely after having a consent Or prior Permissions?
Me and my girlfriend are using an app that takes the access of your partners phone camera, then clicks the image & sends image back to requester. After fiddling with it, we are planning to launch a similar app(globally) under our own brand. But…
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Copyright implications of dismissing Individual and Representative Plaintiffs v. Github Inc, Microsoft Inc, OpenAI (et al.) on derived LLMs
"Individual and Representative Plaintiffs v. GITHUB, INC., a Delaware corporation;
MICROSOFT CORPORATION, a Washington corporation; OPENAI, INC., a Delaware nonprofit corporation; [...]" is a class action lawsuit filed against OpenAI et al which…
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Now that the OPEN Government Data Act is law, can we request data for free?
Currently reading The OPEN Government Data Act is now law.
Now that the measure is the law of the land, agencies will be called upon to maintain comprehensive data catalogs...
I am pretty sure some sites like the Delaware Business Search (@…
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Can I request to delete an account with a government?
This concerns my student loans repayment account which is managed by the gov.uk website.
I have paid my loan back in full and have had a confirmatory letter stating this as well, as I wanted to ensure I have written proof.
When on the phone with the…
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How does GDPR's right to erasure apply to deduplicated storage?
I am trying to understand GDPR's right to erasure (and principle of storage limitation) in the following case:
Company A offers a online data storage service that is intended to be used by the users of other companies (e.g. company A hosts a FTP…
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If I can prove that my drawing/illustration was constructed from various image references, can't I be prosecuted?
Background:
For my design work, I sometimes create portraits to illustrate campaigns and other media. In an effort to avoid mis-appropriating someone's likeness, I tend to draw from a collection of unrelated found portraits and previous…
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