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PlayStation will "irreversably" delete your account along with your game library if you dont login for 3 years (www.msn.com)
submitted 11 hours ago by DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Just in time for them to take physical discs away!

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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not here to defend the corporations.

Email addresses are PII under GDPR, aren't they? So linking email addresses to purchase history is explicitly retaining PII and data about someone they can identify.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 3 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

You are explicitly allowed to retain PII for critical business purposes. So in this case as a key component that the software licence is attached to they can retain it forever anyway.

[–] GMac@feddit.org 2 points 28 minutes ago

Pretty sure that the gdpr specifically precludes forever retention. Data should be retained as long as is necessary and whether 1, 3, 5, 10 or however many years, sooner or later deletion is appropriate, and the timeline depends on what is reasonable.

3 years is a long time to not log in and if a court decided that it exceeded a 'reasonable' period for legitimate interest the fines can go to 10% of global revenue. The law encourages risk averse behaviour.

They could make a better system where the user sets the timeline but it would be impossible to predict the return.

On this one i think its probably driven by risk management not nefarious intent.