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Hadn't heard of unroll.me prior to this, but it looks like nothing of value was lost. GDPR doing its job and it hasn't even come into (en)force(ment) yet! Do t
by lol768 8y ago
Hadn't heard of unroll.me prior to this, but it looks like nothing of value was lost. GDPR doing its job and it hasn't even come into (en)force(ment) yet!
Do they do anything that a quick grep for "Unsubscribe" can't? I guess the digests are somewhat niche
- Hamuko 8y agoSorry, but GDPR came into force in 2016.
- apexalpha 8y agoThat's when they passed the bill I think, but as the article says: > [...] is to stop serving users in Europe ahead of a new data protection enforcement regime incoming under GDPR, which applies from May 25.
- Hamuko 8y agoNope, GDPR was adopted in 2016. It just hasn't been enforced for the last two years in order to give companies time to transition.
- joncampbelldev 8y agoSo to say it "came into force" before its being enforced is at best a poor choice of words.
- gerdesj 8y agoIt was enacted at the EU (err: thingie) level in 2016 and required that all EU member states enact local legislation within two years, deadline 25 May 2018. The EU is pretty complicated. Oh and by the way, the UK will 99.99999% maintain GDPR related statutes on the books, post Brexit. Either that or we are madder than I thought.
- M2Ys4U 8y agoGDPR is a Regulation (the clue is in the name), not a Directive and doesn't require member states to transpose it in to domestic law.
- gerdesj 8y agoWho mentioned Directive?
- Hamuko 8y agoYou did, because what you described is a directive. GDPR is not a directive. It does not require EU member states to do anything. Only country that needs to do something is the UK, since they're leaving the EU and want to convince the other member states that they're not naughty and they want to play in the same digital ballpark as the rest.
- gerdesj 8y agoOK, silly me: https://www.eugdpr.org/gdpr-faqs.html https://www.eugdpr.org/gdpr-faqs.html
- lol768 8y agohttps://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/dataprotection.html https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/dataprotection.... Hasn't received royal assent yet?
- jsiepkes 8y agoIt hasn't been enforced because the law itself says it shall apply from the 25th of may 2018 (art.99 par. 2). So no, the GDPR is not in force yet.
- jsiepkes 8y agoOh right, I see what you mean now. Yeah, pure technically the law came in to force in 2016.
- Hamuko 8y agohttps://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L:2016:119:FULL&from=EN https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:... > This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. "This Regulation" referring to the General Data Protection Regulation. The date on the journal is 4 May 2016, so GDPR entered into force on 20 May 2016.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoTo quote the whole thing: Article 99 Entry into force and application 1. This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. 2. It shall apply from 25 May 2018. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 27 April 2016. I guess you're arguing about a fine point and being downvoted for pedantry, then?
- xkcd-sucks 8y agoThey were previously "famous" for selling people's Lyft receipts to Uber https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/stop-using-unroll-me-right-now-it-sold-your-data-to-uber/ https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/stop-using-unroll-me-rig...