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kat:

ratty redemption:
what's the point of them doing this?

kat:
No idea. GDPR supposedly forces companies to take data security seriously, like they don't already. Its being framed as giving consumers more extensive legal or legislative tools to have any data on them revealed if requested, and deleted if so desired.

That might work fine in terms of mailing lists and advertising where the individual isn't actively contributing anything to the service they receive - in this situation its possible to see how consumers might want to refuse their data, including IP addresses, being used by email harvesters and other 'junk' services that grab and scrape internet users data, typically emails, to use in ways they didn't consent to.

In situations where they are, its not entirely clear what GDPR considers 'personal data'... or rather it is but the definition is so broad as to include content like social media, forums posts and the like. GDPR makes that type of 'overt' or 'exposed' personal content (posted by a person) appears subject to the same data retention requirements as 'hidden' data that might be collected when using a site or service.

And of course, smaller sites and services don't have the legal or compliance personnel in place to ensure they're operating within the regulations.

ratty redemption:
understood, thanks.

kat:
Of course... all this stuff only applies to site and services already essentially conducting themselves 'properly' within existing legislation. Scammers, spammers, scrapers, trawlers and all the other operators that 'acquire' data though questionable means, are not affected by any of this nonsense... how does a person get their data removed from spam lists if they didn't subscribe in the first place. And how are these entities to be held accountable when they already don't care - try sending an abuse claim on a domain that's actually run by the scammer. It. Doesn't. Work.

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