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Re:EFF and EU should respond to Google taking FairEmail off ... by abofh on Thursday May 19, 2022 @12:48PM (#31436998)
The GDPR prohibits companies sharing customer data with third parties without consent of the customer.

It most certainly does not prohibit customers disclosing their own data to third parties.

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Re:EFF and EU should respond to Google taking FairEmail off ... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:11PM (#31437320)
It doesn't, but in this scenario the data is flowing directly from Google to third party code without the customer sitting in the middle. Even under the much more lax US privacy rules, user consent isn't a panacea - Facebook was famously fined $5 billion for allowing users to authorize data sharing with Cambridge Analytica.
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Re:EFF and EU should respond to Google taking FairEmail off ... by contravariant on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:24PM (#31437515)
That was mostly because the data sharing was intentionally opaque.

Saying the GDPR prevents me from letting my email client access my contact list is insane

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Re:EFF and EU should respond to Google taking FairEmail off ... by contravariant on Thursday May 19, 2022 @12:57PM (#31437132)
Also, if I run software then it's first party.
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