I find it fascinating how people blame the solution while it's the symptom that bothers them and they don't even notice the disease.
GDPR isn't only related to internet services. I received a phone call today from my mobile operator, they got bought by a larger company and it was a sales call. However, they were asking to speak to person in charge in regards to company-wide mobile subscription and services - we use none.
What was disturbing is that I was contacted on my private phone number in regards to a sales call related to the company I work at.
The details I left when buying their mobile service (which was 20 years ago) don't contain where I work at. I didn't work at all at the time, but I kept paying for the service.
I didn't update my account details so I found it a huge surprise when they knew exactly who to call and on what number.
Being a EU citizen, I went GDPR on them. I don't want people to call my personal number and disturb me in my own free time with sales calls in regards to my company. How did they get my details? Who authorized them to contact me? I've many questions and luckily - now I have legal backing when asking them to anonymize my data.
I think people get too tied up in the problem (and I agree it is a problem) that they just dismiss the flaws with GDPR.
I really think (like the one I describe) that for many cases GDPR isn't going to have the desired effect, if the result is that we have to sit through notices on every site and click away to get through them.
GDPR isn't only related to internet services. I received a phone call today from my mobile operator, they got bought by a larger company and it was a sales call. However, they were asking to speak to person in charge in regards to company-wide mobile subscription and services - we use none.
What was disturbing is that I was contacted on my private phone number in regards to a sales call related to the company I work at.
The details I left when buying their mobile service (which was 20 years ago) don't contain where I work at. I didn't work at all at the time, but I kept paying for the service.
I didn't update my account details so I found it a huge surprise when they knew exactly who to call and on what number.
Being a EU citizen, I went GDPR on them. I don't want people to call my personal number and disturb me in my own free time with sales calls in regards to my company. How did they get my details? Who authorized them to contact me? I've many questions and luckily - now I have legal backing when asking them to anonymize my data.