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Re:I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it... by AlexanderHanff on Friday June 19, 2026 @03:01AM (#48595643)
Which is exactly the point - under Article 21 of the GDPR every person has a legal right not to be subjected to direct marketing so any forced direct marketing is unlawful and consent cannot be bundled (it must be specific under the GDPR) so bundling consent to direct marketing along with consent to join the Club is not lawful.

Which is why my next step is litigation.

Re:I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it... by thaumasiotes on Friday June 19, 2026 @12:20PM (#48600242)
> Which is exactly the point

The point in this subthread is that your article says the opposite of what you appear to have meant. You don't provide anything other than what is apparently a very bad English translation. The rest of the article makes it pretty clear that you meant to write something different, but it threw me for a loop when I read it and clearly I am not alone.

This is why, when I'm reporting my translation of something in a foreign language, I tend to include the original text too.