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[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 78 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s easier to pretend your data were deleted than collecting part of your data and sending them back to you. They almost every time don’t know how much, where, why they have so much data. They certainly have no way to collect them, only hand made work, so let’s have a little misunderstanding and hope it works.

Now that you’ve been deleted, wait until you receive the next text or email marketing campaign ;)

— I may or may not be working next door to a data protection officer.

[edit: replaced "datas" by "data"]

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 31 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

data is already a plural word friend! "datas" is confusing to read

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Is data a plural word? I thought it was a word without plural form

If data is plural, does that mean that "the data was stolen" is wrong and "the data were stolen" is right?

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

it's like a special category of words idk, grammar theory is my weakest point

data can be one point of data, and data can be many points of data

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Noted, not native english here ;)

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

yeah don't worry, i'm not either, everyone learns at some point! :)

[–] BlueBockser@programming.dev 24 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What am I supposed to do with those informations?

[–] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 9 points 7 hours ago

Start using datum for singular...which is even weirder than datas imo.

[–] Czele@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Write them on sheets of papers

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

And then invoke GDPR, ask for a printed copy