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Interesting how it's 19,90€ in the EU but £29,90 in the UK.
by bbx 2y ago
Interesting how it's 19,90€ in the EU but £29,90 in the UK.
- Zealotux 2y agoAmusing, because it should be free in the EU.
- WithinReason 2y agoIs it illegal to sell something that's free?
- littlestymaar 2y agoWhen the regulation mandate you to provide it for free, yes…
- WithinReason 2y agoI suspect they are providing it for free, but also selling it.
- ffsm8 2y agoAre you sure? I'd expect this to be legal, even if they're required to delete if users make a legal request
- muningis 2y agoGDPR, and right to be forgotten (a.k.a. removal of all and any PII including account)
- oaiey 2y agoWell, there can be administrative fees. It is a right, but that does not imply that it is cost-free. As a EU citizen you have the right to settle in france, but the registration process in the village you need to pay.
- Longhanks 2y agoReally not trying to be devil's advocate here, but the company is based in Switzerland, and neither Switzerland nor UK are in the EU.
- Mashimo 2y agoShould not matter, if they target EU customers. They also have the EU cookie banner.
- WA 2y agoA bad one after all. There is no way to deny.
- dannyw 2y agoIf you offer something to EU residents, you have to comply with GDPR. Even if you are not part of the EU.
- greatpatton 2y agoNo if you operate in the EU you have to comply that's it. If you buy something from Joe the farmer in PA, you are the one importing it (you are paying the custom duties) and Joe the farmer doesn't have to comply with anything related to GDPR. If Joe the farmer wants to sell directly its product in the EU (not from the US) then he has to comply.
- bee_rider 2y agoYou can break a country’s laws depending on whether or not you are ever going to go to that country, or what treaties your country has signed which might cause it to enforce other countries’ laws. These GDPR conversations tend to pointlessly go back and forth on this because one side is describing the GDPR from the point of view of: what does the law say? The other is looking at it from the point of view of: I only have to follow my country’s laws. The latter is closer to correct in some technical sense; laws have finite jurisdictions. But the EU has a big market and so lots of entities play ball with them, to some extent, in general, so it is probably better for most people to comply.
- berkes 2y agoIs that actually a legal requirement?
- SushiHippie 2y agohttps://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
- berkes 2y agoIANAL, but I don't see any requirement of it having to be "free". I probably miss something. And It would seem very much against the spirit, but is a company really not allowed to charge fees for "deleting"?
- EMIRELADERO 2y agoEU courts enforce the spirit of the law as well, not just the letter. It's called "teleological interpretation".
- dathinab 2y agoyes This is a sever breach of GDPR, so is their practice to use the information you give them when ordering for other things then processing your order without an explicit non required opt-in on your part. Furthermore in the past when GDPR was new, judges where often quite lenient when it came to enforcement of first offenders but that is increasingly less the case. And which such bland consumer abusive business practices they might be in for a really bad awakening (if they sell to the EU). Additionally given all that I wouldn't be surprised if their website is also committing GDPR violations. Also even if they have free GDPR deletion "hidden somewhere" that still would be a violation of GDPR as it has been clarified by judges in other cases (related to information requests instead of deletion).
- CodeCompost 2y agoBrexit dividends.
- Mo3 2y agoIf you go back on the Wayback Machine it was 29,90€ 9 months ago too
- red_admiral 2y agoEspecially as these are not legal in the UK (except on private property).