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bluestang
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Oct 1, 2010 Post Count: 272 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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does anyone know why team users disappear from time to time ? rilian,According to post 669704: After 3 years of inactivity the accounts are deleted. Upon the account deletion all the data related to the account is deleted as well to comply with GDPR. If the volunteer was in a team the contribution remains with the team. The teams are not auto-deleted. If the account that owns a team gets deleted, anyone can become the captain of such team and change the name, description, etc. Adri What a great way to memorialize any of the great volunteer crunchers that have been taken by the same diseases they crunched and fought so hard against...deleting their accounts. Pretty hard to stay active when you are deceased. Shame on you WCG for continuing to do this. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by bluestang at Apr 19, 2024 3:51:28 AM] |
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bfmorse
Senior Cruncher US Joined: Jul 26, 2009 Post Count: 296 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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What is "GDPR"
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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What is "GDPR" Good question(?).See https://gdpr-info.eu/ - General Data Protection Regulation See gb009761's post 580529 - "Who does the GDPR affect?", "What are the penalties for non-compliance?" See TonyEllis's post 580592 - "a scenario, bit tongue in cheek, but..." See (Former World Community Grid Tech) knreed's post 580620 and 580621. See (Former World Community Grid Admin) jhindo's post 581346, 581609 and 581899. See 61 Biggest GDPR Fines & Penalties So Far [2024 Update]. Edit: added a link about GDPR fines and penalties so far. Adri [Edit 1 times, last edit by adriverhoef at Apr 19, 2024 9:58:18 AM] |
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rilian
Veteran Cruncher Ukraine - we rule! Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Post Count: 1453 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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After 3 years of inactivity the accounts are deleted. Upon the account deletion all the data related to the account is deleted as well to comply with GDPR. If the volunteer was in a team the contribution remains with the team. The teams are not auto-deleted. If the account that owns a team gets deleted, anyone can become the captain of such team and change the name, description, etc. Adri What a great way to memorialize any of the great volunteer crunchers that have been taken by the same diseases they crunched and fought so hard against...deleting their accounts. Pretty hard to stay active when you are deceased. Shame on you WCG for continuing to do this. omg. that is truly disrespectful to volunteers who donated their computer power and time to the project for free I wonder if stats sites like Free-DC https://stats.free-dc.org/proj/bwcg can recover historical stats ... Will ask there |
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TigerLily
Senior Cruncher Joined: May 26, 2023 Post Count: 280 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi all,
We want to acknowledge your concerns about the deletion of accounts. We do not manually delete anyone's account, but accounts are automatically deleted after 3 years of inactivity. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes. As adriverhoef highlighted, we are legally required to comply with these guidelines and could face fines if we were to change this policy. That said, we have been in conversation with contacts at UHN about the feasibility of selectively applying this policy to users who reside within the EU (where GDPR is applicable) but this discussion is still in the early stages. |
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rilian
Veteran Cruncher Ukraine - we rule! Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Post Count: 1453 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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TigerLily there is no need to remove accounts, they can be just anonymized (as ClimatePrediction does) and also there must be at least email notification (or several) about that. That at least will allow to see historical efforts of teams and countries.
----------------------------------------In my team there were people who died of some diseases and they put their last efforts to promoting volunteer computing. - I wonder how the researchers at krembil will feel when their research will be trashed after 3 years of inactivity. - So you (project admins) decided to remove accounts proactively even knowing that those users are from non-EU countries ? You were not legally required to do that, this is a lie. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 3 times, last edit by rilian at Apr 19, 2024 3:37:50 PM] |
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bluestang
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Oct 1, 2010 Post Count: 272 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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No other BOINC project does this that I can tell.
----------------------------------------Using GDPR is a copout and IBM only implemented to cover their enormous wealth. This has nothing to do with GDPR as just by having the checkbox of Data Sharing option for users is enough. Just removed the script IBM implemented and save some dignity of those still left that haven't been deleted yet. |
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TigerLily
Senior Cruncher Joined: May 26, 2023 Post Count: 280 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi bluestang and rilian,
We agree that the policy is unfortunate and can understand that it has caused frustration. As I mentioned, we are in communication with UHN about changing this policy. As part of this greater organization, we need ensure that WCG follows the appropriate procedures when initiating a potential policy change such as this one. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7655 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Just quick reply Tiger Lily. I am glad to see you have a 45 day badge.
----------------------------------------Happy crunching. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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hchc
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 796 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'd love to see any GDPR deletion automation process be made smarter so that it only deletes accounts from EU member countries and not other countries. I'm pretty sure I've gone 3+ years inactive from WCG about 15 years ago or so before GDPR existed. Glad my account and stats remained.
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