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Re: GDPR Hall of Shame

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Post by cryptoz »

chrisper wrote: post #7

The #2 one seems a bit off. "RE:" stands for Regarding. Yes it makes people look at your email, but it isn't "fake."

The GDPR is about not intentionally deceiving users. That practice is clearly deceptive and clearly violates GDPR.

Re: GDPR Hall of Shame

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Post by Drakim »

"Whoops, we can't secretly sell your data anymore! That means you can't control your smart wifi lightbulbs from now on!"

For me, this is a refutation of the "If you don't pay for the product, you are the product." There is no inherent reason why a company would only do that for a free product. If it works for free products, it works just the same for paid products.

Even if GDPR has flaws, and is gonna cause some disruption, I think we really needed something like this.

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Post by matte_black »

Drakim wrote: post #13

"Whoops, we can't secretly sell your data anymore! That means you can't control your smart wifi lightbulbs from now on!" For me, this is a refutation of the "If you don't pay for the product, you are the product." There is no inherent reason why a company would only do that for a free product. If it works for free products, it works just the same for paid products. Even if GDPR has flaws, and is gonna cause some disr…

You are not the product. Exposure to you is the product.

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Post by pjc50 »

Of these, the worst are the "embedded" ones: the IoT lightbulbs and the Razer devices. Nobody ever expected their lightbulbs to be processing personal data on behalf of third parties.

The one that might be legitimate is the "cheap flights" one; after all, they require your consent for email marketing, and they can't offer you a discount flight without it.

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Post by dingo_bat »

xmodem wrote: post #5

The Instapaper one - #1 - is troubling for a non-obvious reason. One of the tenets of GDPR is that you have to be told how your data is being used. So the only explanation for this behaviour is that there's some shady shit going down that they want to stop before they have to admit to it. If I used Instapaper I'd be filing a complaint with my local DPA about this.

> So the only explanation for this behaviour is that there's some shady shit going down that they want to stop before they have to admit to it.

No, it can something as simple as "we cannot guarantee that all your data is deleted with our current storage system". It would be a lot better if people stop being so alarmist.

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Post by some_account »

Ive been enjoying all the emails from companies and watching them put on a show how they support user privacy and just needs me to continue agreeing to accepting being the product.

I dont think so. There are very few companies I actually use in my life, and less than a handful of them are online. The rest - bugger off.

Re: GDPR Hall of Shame

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Post by Sholmesy »

jannemann wrote: post #4

My favourite at the moment is sendwithus. They said their service will never be GDPR compliant. But fortunately they have a new "enterprise grade" product called sendwithus dyspatch. Same feature set, new price plus GDPR compliance. This is a price jump from $79/Month to a minimum of $24.000/year. And this is with discount for former sendwithus users. I would consider this to be mafia methods.

If they are offering the $79/month service in the EU, it doesn't matter that they have a GDPR compliant version.

They won't be able to sell the non-compliant version right?

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