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Shitty Life Pro Tip: If you can't easily delete an account, try a GDPR Data Request! (lemmy.world)

submitted 21 hours ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"datum" is the singular, but you're right that it's not really grammatically plural since you'd say "the data was stolen" not "the data were stolen". I think the latter would technically also be valid; my interpretation would be that the latter is "countable" plural, so there are specific discrete datums that were stolen.

[–] would_be_appreciated@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

Confusingly, British English actually does treat nouns like "data" and "government" as plural where American English does not. Even more confusingly, they're a little inconsistent with it, so you can find published examples of both.