[ocdtrekkie]

The online copy is... GitHub itself. Which is current and up-to-date, and you can continue to remove your data from. The 2020 snapshot is useful historically... like a time capsule. There's no reason to invest the resources in keeping it online. And if it was online, it would have major regulatory problems, such as GDPR.

So there's a lot of reason to believe the 2020 snapshot won't also be online.

[huac]

ha, I am very curious if GDPR does apply to the offline snapshot. it will literally be on EU soil!

[afiori]

It will likely apply, still I imagine that they can simply pretend it does not.

My intuition is that archiving data for long term historical use is different from datamining a [meta]data to maximize invasion of privacy. Also there is a difference in accessibility, stored inside a glacier very few people are going to actually read it.

I believe that if mass complaints from all over the EU emerged it would be a different story. But this does not look like the activities the GDPR was created for

[scrollaway]

It will absolutely not apply. GDPR has provisions both for archival AND for cases where the removal etc requests are deemed unreasonable.

[ocdtrekkie]

This makes me wonder: How does GDPR apply to books? Essentially what's happening here, is that GitHub is printing off a "paper copy" and putting it in a box somewhere.

You can't exactly GDPR request deletion of your information from a printed book, so I'm curious how GDPR applies to such physical archival mediums.

[ascorbic]

Norway isn't in the EU

[palunon]

But Norway is in the EEA, where the GDPR also applies.