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+author: edk
+date: 2019-08-11 18:52:00+00:00
+slug: matrix-overshare
+title: Matrix GDPR access request data overshare
+---
+
+Hi all,
+
+You may already be aware that in the process of servicing a request for personal
+information under the GDPR, [Matrix.org][matrix] provided a user with a data
+dump that mistakenly included events that user had not been a party to. We
+suggest reading Matrix.org's [writeup][matrix-writeup] for more details.
+
+On the morning of 2019-08-04 UTC we were notified by the recipient of the dump
+that the errant data included messages from freenode users and, in a spirit of
+transparency, felt it was important to keep you informed of any potential
+security issue concerning you.
+
+We have reached out to Matrix.org's team in order to understand the impact of
+the issue, and they have assured us that all of these messages were to public
+channels whose administrations chose to make their histories publicly available.
+
+If you have any questions, feel free to either track down a staffer in PM or
+email <policy@freenode.net>.
+
+Thanks for using freenode.
+
+[matrix]: https://matrix.org
+[matrix-writeup]: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/07/24/data-portability-tooling-bug