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PostRe: It's GDPR Day by **KomandaHeck** » Fri May 25, 2018 7:47 pm

brexit means brexit

PostRe: It's GDPR Day by **Rex Kramer** » Fri May 25, 2018 8:35 pm

I think GDPR has gone to Errkal's head and he's gone crazy with the mod-hammer.

PostRe: It's GDPR Day by **Lagamorph** » Fri May 25, 2018 9:22 pm

Opening Twitter today I'm prompted that I can accept all of their terms of use on privacy and cookies, or deactivate my account.
Is that allowed?

PostRe: It's GDPR Day by **Errkal** » Fri May 25, 2018 9:25 pm

Lagamorph wrote:Opening Twitter today I'm prompted that I can accept all of their terms of use on privacy and cookies, or deactivate my account.
Is that allowed?

Yes, if they have to be able to do gooseberry fool for he service stop work then the option is accept or don't use it, you can't just say no and use something anyway, that's how brexit is trying to be.

PostRe: It's GDPR Day by **Green Gecko** » Fri May 25, 2018 9:30 pm

I think it is provided they also offer an opt out for personalised advertising and marketing communications (emails), which they do.

They can't force those on you however. They have to be essential things to run the service (which might include ads as a way of revenue, but they can't force them to be personalised ads). That's how I'm understanding it at present and I'm still learning the technicalities.

Have a dig in Twitter's (and Facebook's for that matter) privacy policies.

You can also disable Google's personalised ads, but some things won't work (that might be one reason why EU citizens are suing them at the moment).

PostRe: It's GDPR Day by **Errkal** » Fri May 25, 2018 9:32 pm

Yeah Twitter defaults to non personalised now unless you change it.

PostRe: It's GDPR Day by **That's not a growth** » Fri May 25, 2018 9:33 pm

Doesn't seem like it's definitely OK for them to do that, but it'll be while until we know for sure I'd imagine (Edit, regarding to "accept or deactivate"):

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... mer-rights

PostRe: It's GDPR Day by **Lagamorph** » Fri May 25, 2018 9:38 pm

Green Gecko wrote:I think it is provided they also offer an opt out for personalised advertising and marketing communications (emails), which they do.

They can't force those on you however. They have to be essential things to run the service (which might include ads as a way of revenue, but they can't force them to be personalised ads). That's how I'm understanding it at present and I'm still learning the technicalities.

Have a dig in Twitter's (and Facebook's for that matter) privacy policies.

You can also disable Google's personalised ads, but some things won't work (that might be one reason why EU citizens are suing them at the moment).

Oh you can still turn off the targeted ads? The way the initial message is written made it seem like an "All or nothing" approach.

PostRe: It's GDPR Day by **Errkal** » Fri May 25, 2018 9:40 pm

Lagamorph wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:I think it is provided they also offer an opt out for personalised advertising and marketing communications (emails), which they do.

They can't force those on you however. They have to be essential things to run the service (which might include ads as a way of revenue, but they can't force them to be personalised ads). That's how I'm understanding it at present and I'm still learning the technicalities.

Have a dig in Twitter's (and Facebook's for that matter) privacy policies.

You can also disable Google's personalised ads, but some things won't work (that might be one reason why EU citizens are suing them at the moment).

Oh you can still turn off the targeted ads? The way the initial message is written made it seem like an "All or nothing" approach.

PostRe: It's GDPR Day by **Lagamorph** » Fri May 25, 2018 9:46 pm

Ah, going through yeah I get prompted with the options. Think they need to word the initial message a little better.

Annoyingly e-mail notifications are still still enabled by default and there's no disable all option, so you have to untick over a dozen boxes manually. At least it only needs doing once.

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