Comments on: Nabaztag just deleted all your bunny messages.

By: شات

شات — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:02:03 +0000

Pouvez-vous imaginer si Google Maps enregistrées chaque utilisateur de la carte requêtes dans un plein format bitmap? Pouvez-vous imaginer si votre GMail n’a duré que 2 mois, puis avait disparu? Pouvez-vous imaginer si supprimé Flickr photos téléchargées

By: pajama

pajama — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:48:20 +0000

What a huge hassle for you! I’m sorry your messages got deleted I sent you one the other day.

Is there a widgetized public version of that sweet Bunny Talk widget you have on this page in the right hand column?

I would love to embed it under my lifecasting bunny.

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By: Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:59:06 +0000

Boo sucks! Aren’t you using the paid version of the service as well, Aral? That double sucks. If they can’t factor the cost of data storage into their pricing structure then that’s hardly your problem. Grr.

By: Aral

Aral — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:12:52 +0000

@James: Part of the reason I didn’t was because the Nabaztag API is part of SWX PHP and I didn’t want to tie it into a database and force people to go through the trouble of setting one up just to use it.

By: Space Monki

Space Monki — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:00:32 +0000

Definitely more than an inconvenience. I think it qualifies as ‘Denial of service’, since they did this without warning and we, the consumers, were not given the opportunity to arrange for the safe archiving of our valued data.

Luckily, I had clicked the email option and thus been archiving the messages sent to my wabbit, so I’m not affected by this ridiculous policy. In fact, I looked up the law. So I looked in the Data Protection Act 1998, Section 14: Rectification, blocking, erasure and destruction; Subsection (5) says:

(5) Where the court makes an order under subsection (4) it may, where it considers it reasonably practicable, order the data controller to notify third parties to whom the data have been disclosed of the rectification, blocking, erasure or destruction.

Nabaztag, being the “Data Controller” have failed in the provision to notify the third parties of data erasure. So lets say that a friend sends me a message on my Nabaztag and then dies prior to the message being deleted without notification from the data controller. Now I consider it to be a matter to take to court, since I feel that the message I was sent was the last time my dear friend had been in contact with me and thus the court orders the data controller to notify third parties of the ‘erasure’. They have already done this, and if they cannot recover the data, then I believe I could sue for damages.

I haven’t looked in the Nabaztag smallprint, nor do I claim to be a lawyer (I just build eLearning material for them!) … but surely any data controller is obliged to notify the third parties before the erasure of data.

By: Davor

Davor — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:28:36 +0000

Can you download messages in MP3 format then store it to a remote server and then schedule-stream them to your Nabaztag? It is good as a backup solution.

By: James Urquhart

James Urquhart — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:11:35 +0000

Deleting messages like that definitely sucks. I hope they wise up and follow a more sane policy.

Although i was a bit surprised that you didn’t make a copy of the messages when sending them through the API in the first place.

By: Phillip Kerman

Phillip Kerman — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:47:08 +0000

The part that strikes me is that they appear to be pointing out that “in your case” you’ll end up using all their disk space. Besides the fact that it’s not that much data, it’s a customer like you that they should be happy to have. Not complaining when you actually use the service.

I think it’s the right tact to offer them the sincere advice that they change their misguided ways. We’ll see how they react.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:38:46 +0000

Storing MP3s instead of text? Deleting content without warning? Limiting API-driven content to a single day?!

Can you imagine if Google Maps saved each individual user’s map queries in a full-bitmap format? Can you imagine if your GMail only lasted 2 months and then was gone? Can you imagine if Flickr deleted uploaded photos (which I ONLY do via API) after 24 hours?!

This company has no business operating in the Web 2.0 world.