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Nobody on the GDPR angle yet. It's illegal. They are building profiles without consent. Companies using that info are targeting you specifically obviously using
by wjnc 8y ago
Nobody on the GDPR angle yet. It's illegal. They are building profiles without consent. Companies using that info are targeting you specifically obviously using both the profile and what often is your name. That's it. Illegal. Wonder what happens if you talk about being a diabetic or a homosexual. That would mean profiling sensitive data. Good luck with the massive fines on your illegally built profiles. That this is based on public information is not relevant. If you take pictures of people exiting a gay bar it's not OK to spread their profile for gay targeting.
- groestl 8y agoI get your sentiment, but that is not how any of the GDPR or Twitter works. Apart from the obvious problems (e.g. applicability of the GDPR), see GDPR Art. 9, 2 (e). A Twitter feed is not the entrance of a gay bar.
- wjnc 8y agoActually it does. The only lawful base for processing in this case is legitimate interest. The working paper (WP251) specifically states "it would be difficult for controllers to justify using legitimate interests as a lawful basis for intrusive profiling". Regarding the "manifestly made public" I was under the impression that a laymans twitter feed with 10 followers would not fall under "manifestly made public". As soon as the profiling starts inferring from data (say homosexuality) you definitively go off the rails. I do have some professional exposure to GDPR and the way compliance lawyers treat GDPR, profiling etc. So if I'm really of the charts, please point it out, but these firms behaviour would be behaviour I would warn against internally. I wouldn't touch externally built profiles with a 10ft pole.