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The GDPR prohibits companies sharing customer data with third parties without consent of the customer. It most certainly does not prohibit customers disclosing
by abofh 4y ago
The GDPR prohibits companies sharing customer data with third parties without consent of the customer.
It most certainly does not prohibit customers disclosing their own data to third parties.
- contravariant 4y agoAlso, if I run software then it's first party.
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoIt doesn't, but in this scenario the data is flowing directly from Google to third party code without the customer sitting in the middle. Even under the much more lax US privacy rules, user consent isn't a panacea - Facebook was famously fined $5 billion for allowing users to authorize data sharing with Cambridge Analytica.
- contravariant 4y agoThat was mostly because the data sharing was intentionally opaque. Saying the GDPR prevents me from letting my email client access my contact list is insane