Feature request: Download your data

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Feature request: Download your data #823

Open mdrenger opened 6 years ago

mdrenger commented 6 years ago

i'd like to see a 'download your data'-function in hackmd similar to google takeout.

reasons:

it's a nice thing to have

legal: offering hackmd-services to europeans comes with legal responsibilities (general data protection regulation GDPR)

offering users the possibility of backups and admins an export function ( right of access, Art. 15 GDPR)
possible data portability by uploading a backup to another hackmd-instance ( data portability, Art 20 GDPR)

ccoenen commented 6 years ago

Yes, this is a very good suggestion. I don't believe anyone is working on it at the moment.

There's also an interesting question involved: what are "your" documents? everything that you "own" (that you created), or everything you ever worked on? Perhaps even everything you've ever looked at?

GDPR wasn't exactly written with a service like HackMD in mind, so this is probably debateable. But I think at least 1 and 2 should be in an export.

ccoenen commented 6 years ago

This is somewhat related to the whole missing user section, which is tracked in #314 and #653 goes in a somewhat similar direction (although is not intended for downloading)

SISheogorath commented 6 years ago

I already added a download option for all notes the user owns:

https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd/pull/830

Right now without the ability to download the full history, due to some technical issues I may find time to tackle another day.

But you can delete you account now and export data. As soon as 1.2.0 is release this will make to all up-to-date HackMD or more correct future CodiMD instances.