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That’s how it typically works in the UK, probably because of GDPR. Might not stay that way now the EU laws are potentially getting ripped up.
by 35mm 4y ago
That’s how it typically works in the UK, probably because of GDPR.
Might not stay that way now the EU laws are potentially getting ripped up.
- robertlagrant 4y agoUK GDPR under threat? Do you have a link?
- Karellen 4y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=retained+eu+law https://duckduckgo.com/?q=retained+eu+law (GDPR is UK's implementation of an EU directive, the kind of law that the Retained EU Law bill seeks to get rid of.)
- robertlagrant 4y agoThanks for the link. In this case, the Data Protection Act 2018 is the UK's implementation of GDPR. GDPR is the EU regulation. I don't see anything in there that would revoke the DPA, though. It even requires DPA-compatibility at one point, so to avoid recursion I imagine it won't be for that purpose.
- Karellen 4y agoI knew I remembered something else. There's also https://www.itpro.co.uk/policy-legislation/data-protection/358874/uk-seeks-divergence-from-gdpr-to-fuel-growth https://www.itpro.co.uk/policy-legislation/data-protection/3...
- lbriner 4y agoThat's not how it works in the UK and not because of GDPR. Currently, organisations can claim both consent and legitimate interests as a legal basis so it is already possible to take my data from somewhere, pass it to other people and have those third-parties contact you. "Legitimate Interests" was presumably some attempt to allow things like research and things that hadn't been thought of elsewhere but this leaves a nasty loophole that is already being taken advantage of. In fact, some cookie consent banners, if you click "options", disable the consent tickbox by default but leave "legitiimate interests" ticked in some kind of dark pattern to imply that "we'd rather have your consent but we don't need it".