How does the personal data eraser work

  • herrschuessler

    (@herrschuessler)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    The changelog for version 1.9 of flamingo says “Introduces personal data eraser for Address Book and Inbound Messages data.”

    I coulnd’t find any info as to how this works. Could you please clarify on this or point me to the documentation?

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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    See https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Tools_Erase_Personal_Data_Screen

    Thread Starter herrschuessler

    (@herrschuessler)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hey @takayukister, thanks for your quick reply. It seems that the deletion of the records collected by CF7 and saved to database by Flamingo works flawlessly.

    Wordpress also offers the Personal Data Export Tool (https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Tools_Export_Personal_Data_Screen) for GDPR-compliancy. The data saved by Flamingo does not seem to be exported by this tool, can you confirm that? Are there plans to add this feature?

    Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Yes, Flamingo only supports personal data eraser. I have no plan to implement personal data exporter because I think it’s about high-maintenance data like Facebook profile data that you might want to migrate to another SNS.

    Thread Starter herrschuessler

    (@herrschuessler)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Ok, thanks for the info. I believe that data export is a mandatory part of GDPR regulations, so that might still be an interesting feature for consideration – what do you think?

    Another question:
    When I delete a flamingo dataset manually from the message log via the list at admin.php?page=flamingo_inbound, will that data be completely erased fromt the database or just marked as deleted, but kept in storage?

    Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    I don’t think it is mandatory. Anyway, you can manually export personal data when someone requests it and you think the request is reasonable.

    Move to Trash button only moves items to Trash folder. Trash folder items are kept in the database unless you explicitly do Empty Trash or Delete Permanently in the Trash folder screen.

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