On 17 May 2018 at 08:03, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net> wrote:
* nanog@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) [Thu 17 May 2018, 14:44 CEST]:
Agreed. This is garbage, un-needed legislation.
Disagreed. These are great and necessary regulations.
I'm loving the flood of convoluted unsubscribe notices this month from companies that had stored PII for no reason.
I don't. I have better things to do than babysit various accounts I've signed up over the years. Just because someone signs up for an account and forgets about it is not a good enough reason to have my information DESTROYED WITHOUT MY PERMISSION if I do happen to be busy that week to sign in somewhere to accept a legal disclaimer. GDPR is touted as a policy to tackle the issue of the larger players abusing their market positions and our trust; instead, so far, my lack of response would just ensure that I am unsubscribed from my alumni association in the UK; what good does it do to me?! C.