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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7223 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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We continue to be in daily contact with the lawyers. We're equally frustrated with how long this has taken but we don't want to settle without pushing as aggressively as possible for a process that's as volunteer-friendly as possible. i.e. We're focusing on the long term outcome, even if it means extending the short-term inconvenience longer than we hoped. Please bear with us, we're getting there! Sincere thanks, Juan Take the time you need to get it right the first time. I am not going to dump on the WCG staff and techs for something beyond their control. I am "bearing" and continuing to crunch. ( I do like the thought about it taking 9 months to ship an empty box.) Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
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( I do like the thought about it taking 9 months to ship an empty box.)  What if there had been something in that box?Sorry  |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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( I do like the thought about it taking 9 months to ship an empty box.) What if there had been something in that box?Sorry IBM's 4 years total development cycle. The empty box is actually a true story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer I remember it well. I will leave it up to the reader to image the jokes that spread through the industry about "IBM's empty box". To IBM's credit however it was this study that lead them to dramatically reduce their end-to-end development cycle (which at the time was 4 years). Cheers.   |
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sunk818
Advanced Cruncher Joined: May 10, 2018 Post Count: 66 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Take the time you need to get it right the first time. We're all negatively affected... you can make incremental improvements which will be a lot better than what we have now. [Edit 1 times, last edit by sunk818 at Jul 16, 2018 2:36:05 PM] |
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Former Member
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My Androids contributed 2.3 million points in three months. Sure would be nice to be rewarded in bragging roghts, ranking, and even a little byteball.
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ChristianVirtual
Advanced Cruncher Japan Joined: Jan 11, 2014 Post Count: 55 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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that method as described sounds quite reasonable ...
----------------------------------------https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/RightToErasure#DataExports
Active with WCG, GPUGrid, F@H
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Former Member
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My Androids contributed 2.3 million points in three months. Sure would be nice to be rewarded in bragging roghts, ranking, and even a little byteball. I cannot help you with the virtual money, but I see no reason for not bragging your lungs out here about your points  |
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jhindo
Former World Community Grid Admin Joined: Aug 25, 2009 Post Count: 250 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am pleased to report that access to the data export files has been re-activated and is available again. Volunteers who wish to access the data will not need to sign a Data Processing Agreement or obtain tokens.
The review concluded that if volunteers are given explicit notice of and sufficient control over how their data is used, there was no legal justification for imposing any further restrictions on the data export files. The review also concluded that we will likely need to reinforce and strengthen the consent language in a few places on our website, but that doesn't stop us from opening up access to the data exports in the meantime. This process took significantly longer than any of us hoped or anticipated, and we understand people's frustrations while we had to disable access pending the legal review. But we felt it was important to push back aggressively on what was initially a process more appropriate to a commercial engagement than a philanthropic initiative and to persevere until we had an outcome that was both GDPR-compliant as well as volunteer-friendly. Finally, a reminder that while access to the data exports is now unrestricted, the export files only include data of volunteers who have opted to make their information public. Thanks as always for all your support, Juan |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1664 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi Juan,
----------------------------------------I've just received the WCG e-mail (I sent a positive answer) and I check it: it's running again! Thank you ! Yves |
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Bok7575
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Jul 8, 2008 Post Count: 51 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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looks like the exports were switched off also. Not updated since May 23rd? So i assume we will get new data tonight?
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