privacy gdpr european-union
Do user-generated content and votes count as personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
<p>Do user-generated content and votes count as personal data under the  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">General Data Protection Regulation</a> (GDPR)?</p>

<p>For example, on Stack Exchange, do the questions, answers, comments, messages and votes count as personal data?</p>

<h2>Yes</h2>

<p>Posts on social networks are explicitly called out as personal data.</p>

<p>Under GDPR Personal Data is any Data that either on its own (e.g. a photograph) or when cross-referenced with other Data enables to univocally identify one given natural person.</p>

<p>If user generated content allows the identification and/ or Profiling of that natural person then... Yes.</p>

<p>At least for the platform such "link" between the person and the information/ Data is direct... so YES.</p>
