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In fact, you can pay customers of your competitors $100 to ask them to request erasure of data from their competitor. Have fun!
by xstartup 8y ago
In fact, you can pay customers of your competitors $100 to ask them to request erasure of data from their competitor. Have fun!
- jdalgetty 8y agoThis is the sort of thing that worries me. Are we going to see a whole bunch of GDPR trolls show up and try to extort businesses for money?
- ci5er 8y agoWhy would you (could you) not expect this to happen? I know the expression "This is why we can't have nice things" is trite and cliche, but every "good" thing I've seen online for over 40 years attracts parasites (depending on your definition of parasite). (Some of them are quite clever, ... so it makes me wonder why they don't point their genius at more positive activities...)
- kasey_junk 8y agoOne of the few things you dont have to worry about with GDPR is private firms trolling you. The regulatory agencies are an open question...
- repolfx 8y agoPrivate firms can't sue you for GDPR violations but they can encourage customers to file requests that are expensive to deal with. It's not just over-broad erasure requests, it's the right to get a data dump of everything the company knows about you (this is like the worst case for big firms that don't have joined up IT systems). I doubt private firms actually will engage in that sort of trolling though, at least not at any volume. NGOs and activists on the other hand, I fully expect that. They're always looking for ways to punish firms who they dislike. Normally that's restricted to boycotts, in recent times they've experimented with attacking advertisers for companies that rely on advertising ... GDPR requests will likely become a new battleground.