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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by gaius on Sunday May 13, 2018 @03:42PM (#17060603)
What are the odds of someone offical even noticing that you are in violation of GDPR?

Plenty of ordinary people will be actively looking for opportunities to file GDPR complaints. I know I will. This is a crusade. Taking the Internet back from adtech.

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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by m-localhost on Sunday May 13, 2018 @06:13PM (#17061309)
Are you going after amazon or my neighbours small online flower business?
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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by PeterisP on Monday May 14, 2018 @02:59AM (#17063351)
It depends, for example a local restaurant mini-chain has been doing some spamming and refused to take me off their list, so if I get a single message from them after May 26th, I'll definitely file a complaint. From the consumers perspective, the main GDPR effect is that things that previously were scummy but legal have now become forbidden, and some of the things that have been forbidden but not enforced now have an enforcement mechanism with teeth to make it happen.
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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by gaius on Monday May 14, 2018 @12:38AM (#17062739)
If they have Google ads they’re fair game.
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