Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 13:27:50 UTC+2 schreef Michiel de Jong: > 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: > > (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.
Hi Michiel (fellow Dutchie I suppose ;)?)! Personally, I don't see how it makes a difference in security to require users to send a fax instead of mail, because users have to hand over a copy of their ID and the email-adress (which is linked to the Twitter-account) either way. Why is a fax in this situation 'safer' than mail I wonder? In my opinion faxes a not required: Facebook also allows mails for data requests. In fact, I believe that the exercise of a right to access should be exercised the same way as the way an agreement is created. For example: if you create an account on a website, you should also be allowed to request your information using that website (or by mail, as long as it's possible via internet). Also I'm not sure about the points. Yes, Twitter allows a right to access for their users, but all companies (controllers) who process data of Europeans have to! So why give them so much credit for that? -- 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.
