It’s time to embrace GDPR

[LASER_oneXM]

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/05/24/embrace-gdpr/

GDPR was created to ensure that giving personal information out is no longer a gamble. Personal data is exactly what GDPR aims to protect. Not only will the new regulations protect customer data, they will allow customers to own the way their data is stored and processed. Consumers can request to see their data at any time or ask that any or all their data be permanently deleted. Customers will now own the rights to their data. This is a gamechanger and will eliminate the need to question the ulterior motives of every form filled out.

GDPR requires organizations that collect European Union citizen Personally Identifiable (PII) data to be compliant.

 

[Weebarra]

I have been on a mass purge with this since the emails started arriving, most of them i have chosen to have my account/information deleted. I noticed some sneaky-ish tactics too within those emails. One, my favourite restaurant that i frequent on a regular basis with a big green "stay with us button" and a rather hard to find button to decline but it was like blackmail. If you choose to stay with us, we will enter you into a free draw for a meal for two. No thanks, i will visit you anyway, you just don't need my details for me to do that, i am perfectly capable of picking up the phone to book a table when i need one.

 

[vtqhtr413]

I agree Laser and Weebarra that this is a good thing for consumers but you have to wonder how they will make up for this lost revenue, more miners? I have recently been to a couple of websites that stopped me dead in my tracks because they detected my adblocker, if I turned it off they would allow me to proceed, these type of things.