Incident #30E374 · 16 APR 2026notable
UpScrolled's EU privacy policy is rewritten with GDPR rights, retention, and scraping/AI-training language
The EU copy of the privacy policy now sets out in detail what is collected, how it is used and shared, retention, international transfers, and GDPR rights, with UpScrolled B.V. (Netherlands) as controller. The old text on date-of-birth use, usage-information gathering and a missing self-service data download tool was removed. New text warns that scraping or activity to train automated systems without authorisation may lead to enforcement, and allows de-identified data for research and development.
Taken from you
- Self-service data download promise removed; portability now only listed as a right
- Statement that date of birth is used solely for age verification was removed (now month and year of birth collected)
- Marketing communications are now listed as a use of data, under a legitimate-interest legal basis.
- Posted content may take additional time to be removed from backup systems after deletion.
Won back
- Explicit GDPR rights: access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority named
- Named data controller, DPO and UK representative
- Commitment to disclose only the minimum information required by law to authorities, and to challenge overbroad requests.
- Safeguards for international data transfers described
- Commitment to delete personal data collected from users under 16 once discovered.
- Human moderators have the final role in most enforcement decisions
Evidence · 4 of 4 quotes matched in source
activity designed to train automated systems or datasets without authorisation; or+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
UpScrolled may create and use aggregated, anonymised, or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
We do not sell or trade your personal information to external parties.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
Archived version ↗ · 3,025 words changed