Reply to post: Re: I'm still waiting for e-mails from Facebook(*) and Google

Whois privacy shambles becomes last-minute mad data scramble

nagyeger
Big Brother

Re: I'm still waiting for e-mails from Facebook(*) and Google

Isn't this wrong? There are multiple options for the legal basis, consent is only one of them. They might decide they ought to be able to claim that knowing my browsing habits is a legitimate business requirement.

The biggest "problem" is when they used to rely on 'we could do it, and we're too big to bother with fines, so we did it.' For some reason that isn't in the GDPR.

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