Reply to: The first GDPR massive fine !

[meridian]

Interesting tweet:

https://twitter.com/fr3ino/status/10...615714816?s=21

Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! 🙄
5.2MB → 500KB

They went from a load time of more than 45 seconds to 3 seconds, from 124 (!) JavaScript files to 0, and from a total of more than 500 requests to 34.

[Old Greg]

If GDPR says it's a fine, then it's a fine...

FTFY

[Mordac]

The Mormons, they think they are above the law, and love collecting data

If God says it's fine, then it's fine...

[portseven]

The Mormons, they think they are above the law, and love collecting data

[cojak]

Admin. NAT provided a useful link to LinkedIn and has asked that we all put in the following letter to CUK (Contractor UK Limited, 1 Northumberland Avenue, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5BW) today:

*saves for future use*

[darmstadt]

By replying to this thread, Ghostery tells me that there are 4 trackers active obtaining information about me....

[tomtomagain]

If the rules are not designed to bring the right results, then there's no point having them in the first place.

Well, there is a point to them but they were not designed to stop scammers ... there are rules in place to make that illegal already, its just we all know they are effectively unenforceable.


The current reaction to GDPR is quite amusing. Try viewing the Chicago Tribune or LA Times ( I read neither ) ... currently blocked to EU residents.

Made me think: What the hell were they doing with data? It's a newspaper for goodness sake!

Part of the problem is, of course, the "Business model" for a lot of internet companies. Provide the service, sell the data. It costs a shed-load of cash to run multiple globally distributed data centres and pay a large team.

I blame open-source for giving the impression that software should be free.

Don't want your data to be sold? But how much would you pay a month to use CUK or Facebook?

[BlasterBates]

The US has all sorts of strict and sometimes stupid rules, try doing business in the US, if you were to get rid of the EU to rid yourself of stupid rules, you will simply find that there will still be stupid rules but there will be more of them and everyone would complain how stupid it would be to have different stupid rules and that if you do have stupid rules then you may as well have one single set of stupid rules for everyone.

Personally for all it's faults I prefer the fact that my personal information won't be distributed willy nilly and end up in the hands of the Russian mafia who then order stuff in my name from Amazon, all those annoying newsletters and spam mail have now almost entirely disappeared from my mailbox and I don't have to spend half an hour a day cleaning it up and quaking with fear as to whether there's a hidden link to clear out my bank account.

[Mordac]

So because there are people who break the rules there is no point in having rules at all?

If the rules are not designed to bring the right results, then there's no point having them in the first place.

[Lance]

The first GDPR massive fine !

I reckon a utility company. One of the old ones. Perhaps British Gas.

I’ll also have a side bet on Northern Powergrid as well as the distribution equivalents in other areas. They have personal data but aren’t customer facing as such so perhaps aren’t quite as ready/vigilant as the ones who bill customers directly.

I’d have gone for google and TSB but got beaten to it.

[cojak]

Please let is be HMRC first. CUK second......

Then where would you be if we had to shut down the HMRC Scheme Enquiries forum?

[DaveB]

That was sort of my point. It's aimed at the wrong people. Which is why it's a complete waste of time.

So because there are people who break the rules there is no point in having rules at all?

[Mordac]

I wish.

Only legitimate companies follow the rules. Scammers just gonna keep on scammin'

What a good scammer needs is access to their targets personal information.

So it would be handy for them if every company was required by law to divulge all personally held information.

So I'd advise them to start by gleaning all the personal information they can from social media and then to put in data access requests to a variety of utility/phone companies on behalf of their target to pick up more information before moving onto the banks.

That was sort of my point. It's aimed at the wrong people. Which is why it's a complete waste of time.

[SueEllen]

TSB??

[tomtomagain]

My money is on the Indian chap who keeps ringing me up telling me there's a problem with my BT Broadband. I don't have BT Broadband...

I wish.

Only legitimate companies follow the rules. Scammers just gonna keep on scammin'

What a good scammer needs is access to their targets personal information.

So it would be handy for them if every company was required by law to divulge all personally held information.

So I'd advise them to start by gleaning all the personal information they can from social media and then to put in data access requests to a variety of utility/phone companies on behalf of their target to pick up more information before moving onto the banks.