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farmatito is offline farmatito
2011-10-07 , 12:02
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Originally Posted by philheaton View Post
Its a good point. The site is owned by Nokia and as such is subject to Nokia's privacy policy

http://maemo.org/legal/privacy_policy/

Its perfectly reasonable to demand that any information Nokia hold should be deleted and disregarded, especially for marketing purposes.

However, from Nokia's point of view, anyone who signs up to the site has expressly agreed to the terms of the policy so you may find it difficult to rescind the contract. Maybe worth pursuing if you have the time/patience/reason.
From the Privacy Policy:
"You have the right at any time to review any and all of your Personal Information stored by Nokia. Further, you have the right, at any time, to ask Nokia to remove some or all of your Personal Information and to prohibit Nokia or its third-party designees from using any Personal Information submitted by or collected from you. "

So please, Nokia rather than compell people "to ask you to remove" their
user account, provide a simple "delete my account" button.

Eventually you can write to:

Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman
PO Box 315
FIN-00181 Helsinki
Tel. (358-9) 182 51
http://www.tietosuoja.fi/
Last edited by farmatito; 2011-10-07 at 12:12.
 

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