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I think that's where the wiggle room (or court battleground?) of GDPR will be. Lots of companies do that: Quora, Pinterest,...

• tobltobs 8y ago
  There will be years of battles in court how to interpret the GDPR, but not for this. > (Article 4 ) ‘consent’ of the data subject means any freely given, ... > Recital 42: Consent should not be regarded as freely given if the data subject has no genuine or free choice or is unable to refuse or withdraw consent without detriment. > Article 7: 4. When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.
• woolvalley 8y ago
  I think quora and co is more about having an account and not about any sort of data consent per say.
  • ColonelPhantom 8y ago
    Making an account is generally seen as a form of giving consent, especially as you need to agree to the terms and conditions when doing so.
    • zerostar07 8y ago
      you can make an account and still not consent, e.g. to be tracked because they can't prove that 'being tracked is necessary for reading quora'. the two are orthogonal
    • taysic 8y ago
      You have to be very explicit and clear about what you data you are handing over in GDPR and how it will be used. Making an account usually does not have that information. Additionally, you need to give a person an option to not hand over that data and still use your app/site 'without detriment' unless that data was essential to your tool.