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Yes it has. Companies are now forced to build architectures that take data classification and privacy in mind. It's been a really great addition and a important

Yes it has. Companies are now forced to build architectures that take data classification and privacy in mind. It's been a really great addition and a important check on the data economy.

amelius 7y ago
Do you still receive targeted advertisements (assuming you have not opted-in to them)?
- supermatt 7y ago
  Unfortunately, yes. I haven't knowingly opted-in to anything. This may be a problem with the whole "click here to accept all these cookies" bullcrap that is on every site. I dont think this apparent benefit of the GDPR has worked - at all. However, in the organisations I have worked with professionally, GDPR is absolutely working - user data collection, storage and security is now a leading conversation - whereas it was a afterthought before, at best. Of course, this isnt generally visible to the end user, and there are undoubtedly still businesses who ignore this - but i guess we wouldnt know unless there is an incident - in which case I would expect the EU to come down HARD. I think its web-tracking and marketing in particular that still needs fixing.
  - concerned_user 7y ago
    Accept cookies has nothing to do with GDPR. GDPR has to do that if you provide your phone/mail to some shop or other service they can only use it to contact you with information directly related to their business, like processing your order etc. They can not send you marketing stuff unless you explicitly consented and must remove you from lists if you ask. Even delete your account if you ask (not the data tho).
    - supermatt 7y ago
      Accepting cookies is definitely related to GDPR. If a cookie can be used to identify you, that is personal information.
    - pteraspidomorph 7y ago
      GDPR added the bit where you can opt out of cookie usage on a case by case basis (by use case or by data processor). American companies usually don't implement that part in a correct or legal manner (they have no incentive for doing so; they're only pretending "your privacy is so very, very important to them" for PR reasons). European companies doing it wrong are on shaky ground, since it's a matter of time until some regulator somewhere (which one depends on their country) slaps them with massive fines. On data removal: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/dealing-citizens/do-we-always-have-delete-personal-data-if-person-asks_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
- concerned_user 7y ago
  I stopped receiving quite a bunch of various newsletters/proposals was kinda funny reading all the cries for "come give us your consent" few days before GDPR was fully enforced. Overall it is a lot less likely to start receiving various advertisement sms/email after providing your data in some new place.
- oneplane 7y ago
  Well, yes and no. You will always get ads, and targeted or not (based on tracking data) was only going to matter about 4%. Not sure when this was posted on HN, but multiple papers and researches have reached similar conclusions. It's not all that strange if you think about it, because the people that were going to click on ads were going to click anyway, and those who wouldn't aren't suddenly changed because the ads are targeted.

Yes it has. Companies are now forced to build architectures that take data classification and privacy in mind. It's been a really great addition and a important check on the data economy.

amelius 7y ago

Do you still receive targeted advertisements (assuming you have not opted-in to them)?

supermatt 7y ago
Unfortunately, yes. I haven't knowingly opted-in to anything. This may be a problem with the whole "click here to accept all these cookies" bullcrap that is on every site. I dont think this apparent benefit of the GDPR has worked - at all. However, in the organisations I have worked with professionally, GDPR is absolutely working - user data collection, storage and security is now a leading conversation - whereas it was a afterthought before, at best. Of course, this isnt generally visible to the end user, and there are undoubtedly still businesses who ignore this - but i guess we wouldnt know unless there is an incident - in which case I would expect the EU to come down HARD. I think its web-tracking and marketing in particular that still needs fixing.
- concerned_user 7y ago
  Accept cookies has nothing to do with GDPR. GDPR has to do that if you provide your phone/mail to some shop or other service they can only use it to contact you with information directly related to their business, like processing your order etc. They can not send you marketing stuff unless you explicitly consented and must remove you from lists if you ask. Even delete your account if you ask (not the data tho).
  - supermatt 7y ago
    Accepting cookies is definitely related to GDPR. If a cookie can be used to identify you, that is personal information.
  - pteraspidomorph 7y ago
    GDPR added the bit where you can opt out of cookie usage on a case by case basis (by use case or by data processor). American companies usually don't implement that part in a correct or legal manner (they have no incentive for doing so; they're only pretending "your privacy is so very, very important to them" for PR reasons). European companies doing it wrong are on shaky ground, since it's a matter of time until some regulator somewhere (which one depends on their country) slaps them with massive fines. On data removal: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/dealing-citizens/do-we-always-have-delete-personal-data-if-person-asks_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
concerned_user 7y ago
I stopped receiving quite a bunch of various newsletters/proposals was kinda funny reading all the cries for "come give us your consent" few days before GDPR was fully enforced. Overall it is a lot less likely to start receiving various advertisement sms/email after providing your data in some new place.
oneplane 7y ago
Well, yes and no. You will always get ads, and targeted or not (based on tracking data) was only going to matter about 4%. Not sure when this was posted on HN, but multiple papers and researches have reached similar conclusions. It's not all that strange if you think about it, because the people that were going to click on ads were going to click anyway, and those who wouldn't aren't suddenly changed because the ads are targeted.