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They would have a legitimate reason to doubt that all cards individually opted out and so they'd probably send people a letter or post a notice somewhere (updat
by lucb1e 6y ago
They would have a legitimate reason to doubt that all cards individually opted out and so they'd probably send people a letter or post a notice somewhere (updated ToS, idk) that there is now a new form that makes it more annoying for you to opt out (have to enter other details, send a letter, whatever) and that opt-outs after date X (when the mass additions started happening) have not been processed.
Or you do it like the EU and make excessive data processing opt-in. (Where by "excessive" I mean something that doesn't fall within recital 47 of GDPR: "legitimate [e.g. marketing] interests of [the company] may provide a legal basis for processing, provided that [users' rights] are not overriding, taking into consideration the reasonable expectations of [users]". It's a grey area where this line is exactly, but Visa can't simply do whatever they want. They have to tell you what data they process, but nobody reads that, and for unexpected (arguably excessive) things they'd have to ask you to opt in.) But I guess that's a little beyond the scope of this comment thread.
- moduspol 6y agoAlternatively, they check their web server logs for the IP address(es) from which 99% of requests came, and then undo the opt-outs of those numbers. Then they add a better CAPTCHA.