Anyone familiar with GDPR data privacy?

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Anyone here familiar with data privacy laws, if a website owner made private messages public, would this be classed as a data privacy issue? This isn’t related to mumsnet btw.

As far as I recall facebook were sued for it some years ago. Is this similar?

It depends on the content of the messages and whether they are a UK or EU company. Can you give more context?

Thanks for replying @goblinkinggoblinking & @Doggiedoodoos one message from myself sent to an owner/mod of a forum, I linked to sex matters website with information from The Law Society of current laws regarding gender critical views being protected under UK law & some links to women’s rights to privacy. No other wording from myself, just links & quotes from those sources. My private message was then posted straight onto the forum, I am not on the forum under my real name, most there aren’t, they have nicknames, I was then labelled a bigot, terf, transphobe & homophobe. In their TOS it says that they are committed to protecting & respecting your privacy, UK site.

Information about personal political beliefs is protected - however if it's anonymous I'm not sure it applies - is there any way of identifying you from the post?

@FusionChefGeoff probably not, I didn’t have many posts, someone might be able to guess from my posting style as I was an active member for over 20 years on there but was hounded off by the activists & then rejoined again under a different name.

Yes it's a breech.

You sent it in private and it was then shared publicly. Can you be identified via email address you used to sign up?

GDPR protects personal data (names, addresses, phone numbers etc). As long as nothing that could identify you was published then it is not a GDPR breach.

l’m not sure if it is a breach of any other privacy rules though.

It's a breach because it's the sharing of private information.

Everyone has a right to privacy, ie private communications must be kept private.

@GiggleWhale, Its not private information that is protected but personal data.

From what you said they don't appear to have released personal information about you. If your dm, that was shared, mentioned your email address or similar then that would be personal data.

Agreed. For it to be a breach of GDPR it needs to be "sensitive" information (personal details etc). Just sharing some website links is not sensitive information.

Sorry this happened OP, sounds horrible

Thanks for all your comments.

@goblinkinggoblinking it is horrible but seems to be acceptable for men to gang up on women & try to silence them.