Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

Re:Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with re... by JackMcMack on Friday August 21, 2020 @11:41AM (#24235787)

I'd love to try it, but your terms of service seem to completely ignore GDPR.

https://gitduck.com/terms

  2. Communications
  
  By creating an Account on our Service, you agree to subscribe to newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information we may send.
  
  ...
  
  
  11. Analytics
  
  We may use third party services (including Amplitude, Segment, Crisp and Google, and their respective affiliates) that collect, monitor and analyze this Log Data to provide analytics and other data to help us increase our Service’s functionality and to help us advertise our products and services. These third party service providers may use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons or other storage technology to collect and store Log Data or information from elsewhere on the internet. They have their own privacy policies addressing how they use Log Data and we do not have access to, nor control over, third parties’ use of cookies or other tracking technologies.

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Re:Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with re... by joelellis on Saturday August 22, 2020 @11:36AM (#24244791)

Specifically, section 2 ignores (The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations)[https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/what-are-...] and section 11 ignores (the consent part)[https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...] of GDPR, without giving a different lawful basis for data processing.

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Re:Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with re... by chrismorgan on Saturday August 22, 2020 @11:00PM (#24249185)

That section 2 part is illegal in a lot of the world, and it’s not recent like GDPR. For Europe, PECR is from 2003. It’s illegal in Australia too since 2003: informed consent is required for such commercial messages, and merely being a customer is insufficient, it must be opt-in rather than opt-out (and that means you can’t even pretick a newsletter checkbox). (There used to be an excellent document outlining the legislation requirements at https://www.acma.gov.au/Industry/Marketers/Anti-Spam/Ensurin..., but that page seems to have disappeared recently with no obvious replacement.)

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Re:Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with re... by bigtech4gdpr on Friday August 21, 2020 @01:28PM (#24236982)

Gotta love a legislation which makes it much harder for startups while favoring the fully lawyered-up big tech.

Never forget what the GDPR fan boys claimed about this legislation being some kind of Big Tech "killer", and now go and look at Big Tech stock prices.

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Re:Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with re... by JackMcMack on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:06PM (#24237880)

How hard is it to create an opt-in?

GDPR was never about killing Big Tech, it's about protecting your data.

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