In the coming weeks many online sites and services based in the Europe (and optionally elsewhere) will be emailing various
notification of consent messages, or provide updated cookie consent pop-ups online, so as to be in compliance with the new EU
General Data Protection Regulation (come into effect 25 May), required to be issued for visitors (continued) use of a site or service.
It's not exactly clear how this affects forums and other community or participatory services like KatsBits because
the regulations carry the implication that if consent is not given,
any content, user accounts or other material must be removed with immediate effect (
because consent for its continued use has not been/is no longer given). Needless to say the consequences of having to do this where more than one person is involved in a conversation potentially means/implies
all associated content need be removed (and likely permanently deleted), which then obviously breaks context and continuity, of particular importance for technical support, fixing issues and getting appropriate degrees of community assistance.
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