technokek wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:20 pm
It is actually kinda weird how this is just laughed about. Privacy is a human right.
I'm gonna try to explain this as best I can without revealing any of the actual information that was used to ban this guy. Probably the easiest way to do that is to break down his insane ramblings.
"Data is being collected on me outside of what BYOND collects(CID, IP, ckey)" - It's not, these three pieces of information are all that's really stored on our servers about any specific player aside from anything they say in logs.
"Some form of data analytics ran" - No, not really.
Y"ou could be geolocating" - IPs can be used to very vaguely locate someone based on the IP's geo data but that's EXTREMELY vague (mine says I'm like 500 miles away from where I actually am) and we don't use that information anyway.
"Running AI/ML on language/behavior" - Do I have to explain why this is insane?
Hugs is 100% telling the truth in their reply to them, we don't do anything that would ever even come close to GDPR, all of our logs have IPs stripped save for the raw logs admins can access, your data is secure. Every website in existence grabs your IP address (they have to, it's literally how the internet works) and CID and ckey are proprietary BYOND stuff that can't identify you outside of the game.
E: I was informed that apparently IPs are covered under GDPR, but we're compliant in that case since you can't view player IPs without being authenticated as an admin.