Hm, on the other hand, they probably get a lot of people trying to compromise celebrity accounts, so maybe it's just their way of being cautious? I'm not sure whether we should immediately judge this as them trying to discourage you or being lazy about how they offer this data export service. In fact, faxes probably give them a lot of extra work, too. See also for instance https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2014/08/the-story-of-getting-twitter-data-and-its-missing-middle/ about the trade-off between API openness and user privacy that Twitter apparently deals with.
On the other hand, you're right that use of faxes and printed documents is really silly in this day and age - they could instead also just allow you to email a scanned copy of your passport as an attachment. I propose we give then the 40 positive points for allowing data export, but discount them 10 for requiring the use of fax technology (so a score of +30 instead of +40 in the end). On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 8:32:03 PM UTC+2, Anna D wrote: > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e639t2akYOs/VAYM_IHKX_I/AAAAAAAAAAk/iyVk5BKNwg8/s1600/twitter%2Bright%2Bto%2Baccess.jpg> > (Trying this again, image in previous post didn't work) Under current > European law, users/data subjects have the right to access their personal > data which the controller has collected (art. 12 Directive 95/46/EC, > http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31995L0046:en:HTML) > > and ask for a copy of those personal data. Twitter makes it very hard for > users to access their personal data, because they are required to send a *fax > *with various (personal) data to Twitter for identification purposes. > It's pretty obvious that most people don't have faxes at home anymore. > -- tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
