Reply to post: Re: Being honest about data-collection isn't an option anymore is it ?

Activists hate them! One weird trick Facebook uses to fool people into accepting GDPR terms

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Being honest about data-collection isn't an option anymore is it ?

"only to send out their GDPR email and receive a flurry of unsubscribe requests instead."

If they don't have your explicit consent already, then you don't NEED to send an unsubscribe.

This makes law what was ASA policy anyway - and the reason it's been made law is because industry self-regulation (and the ASA as self-proclaimed "regulator") has utterly failed.

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