From the blog post linked in this topic.
Edit (to address your edit about marketing emails and privacy):
Respectfully, I disagree. Privacy issues center around the invasion, and in extreme cases outright elimination, of privacy of individuals. This is when entities use (your) data to identify you even when you are trying to stay anonymous. When it becomes impossible for you to have privacy.
To be honest, this central issue has a fairly vast umbrella...but no, taking an e-mail (without a name even) and placing it on a marketing campaign list with explicit user consent via a true opt-in does not fall under that umbrella in my opinion.
Also, to get to the second point: you didn't click the opt-in checkbox and still got marketing e-mails?
(Just signed up for a new account, will do that with a GDPR template if I receive unwanted e-mails)