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I did some work for a small game company that collects an email address as part of the registration for a contest within the mobile game. They may well be shut

I did some work for a small game company that collects an email address as part of the registration for a contest within the mobile game. They may well be shut out of the EU now, which is sad, because I know for a fact there was zero malicious intent.

craigsmansion 9y ago
> collects an email address as part of the registration [..] they may well be shut out of the EU now Why would that be? I think there's a lot of misunderstanding and/or uncertainty about the scope of the GDPR. The fact itself that you know, for a fact, there is no malicious intent, means that the GPDR will have little to no bearing on you. If you're having a simple free e-mail raffle of goodies for a list of players that signed up for that, there's nothing that prevents you from doing that. What would change is that if someone asks you what you have on them, you have to mail back "we have your email address in a list of email addresses", and you have to really delete it if they request it. These are things any decent company would normally comply with regardless. It's only problematic if you would be harvesting data for non-transparent purposes, but that's not something that could reasonable be included with "zero malicious intent".
ginko 9y ago
>They may well be shut out of the EU now Why would you think that? Collecting email addresses for an optional contest is a legitimate use case. The company just needs to ensure that these addresses are stored securely and must give users the option to get their data deleted.