During the start of the Covid19 lockdown, I was convinced by friends to try houseparty and decided it was pretty crappy so stopped using it as mentioned in a previous blog.
After many emails I finally got my personal GDPR data copy. From Hotel Charlie!
I can’t tell you how much hassle its been… even when they sent me a horribly long link (we are talking about 300 characters long) to the zip file, it would expire a few hours later on their Amazon S3 bucket.
<Error>
<Code>ExpiredToken</Code>
<Message>The provided token has expired.</Message>
<Token-...{very large token}...</Token>
</Error>
Finally once I got it… It was a zip file with a index.html and 5 different folders.
- room_visits / room_visits.html
- profiles /profile.html
- photos / 216A9AAE57194410901F8BA7981E63AB (a png file)
- interactions / interactions.html
- friends / friends.html
All the .html files are horrible tables for example here is interactions.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Room Visits</title>
</head>
<style>
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table, th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
}
</style>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Room ID</td>
<td>Room Visit Start Date</td>
<td>Room Visit End Date</td>
<td>Users</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>e021116-bae-44d6-cc17-9121fbeaccc13</td>
<td>
2020-06-45T21:23:11Z
</td>
<td>
2020-06-11T21:16:41Z
</td>
<td>
<ul>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The data isn’t that interesting but I think thats because I wasn’t using the app just my Chromium browser. I also only friended one person, so its all pretty slim on data.
Not that interesting but I’m very sure theres lots they have on me, however I requested my account is deleted. There is no way to delete your account if you are using the browser and the Android app from within the system. You have to request deletion!
My next GDPR request is for Clearview AI!