GDPR Hall of Shame

GDPR shutdowns and horror stories 👎

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With only a couple of dates to go until GDPR comes into force, companies are scrambling to comply. However some are doing terrible jobs! Feel free to submit your own stories! On Twitter https://twitter.com/ow, or emailing gdpr@owened.co.nz

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Freeletics Body & Mind Coach

This is petty. Owen, if you worked at a company that implemented updates for GDPR, you would have empathy for the complexity and work required to meet the regulations. Sitting on the sidelines and pointing fingers doesn't build you any personal credibility. Why not spend the time highlighting companies which are doing delightful things to provide privacy to users?

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8yr ago

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@aethelyon I'll happily make the antithesis to this, gdprshowcase.com, if people want to send them over!

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8yr ago

Startup Marketing US [discontinued]

@aethelyon @ow Yeah, pretty sad dude. This is a stressful time for a lot of people running businesses, and sitting there pointing fingers when you're not having to deal with the weight of similar decisions is obnoxious.

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8yr ago

Freeletics Body & Mind Coach

@ow off the cuff, Marvel has done a great job. so has Strava, which had the added complexity of processing data that could be considered health data.

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8yr ago

ClassicPress

@aethelyon @ow don't let the naysayers get you down - gdpr has been on its way for 2 years. As a business owner and consumer, I love your site

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8yr ago

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@aethelyon @heynaeem Eh? They've had two years to prepare. Sympathy, yes, but also - there is no excuse!

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8yr ago

LOL at all the sour people here who are calling this petty. @Ow Owen, you did a great job. GDPR has been in the making for two years, people should have been preparing and not scrambling at the last minute.

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8yr ago

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@aaroniclee Thank you!

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8yr ago

@aaroniclee I agree with your statement, but this website seems scrambled as well. Done last minute mocking companies who actually looked up the GDPR regulations and decided how they want to comply. @ow Did not even look into making the website compliant... Strangely his main product char.gd appears to be compliant.

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8yr ago

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@aaroniclee @empty2k12 What are we talking about compliance-wise? As far as I can see, anonymizing Google Analytics should be sufficient, and it's the only snippet I'm loading.

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8yr ago

@ow @aaroniclee Do European companies have to follow all U.S. privacy and internet laws as well as their own?

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8yr ago

This project is petty and insulting. You could've built something to help people instead of shitting on companies - some of them even DO comply with the GDPR but you just didn't like their changes (e.g. Razer).

⚠️ Worst of all: your website is NOT GDPR compliant. 👎

It doesn't have a Privacy Policy and breaks GDPR compliance by sharing personal data with FOUR different third parties: Twitter, Cloudflare, Google Fonts, Google Tag Manager (analytics).

Your "GDPR Hall of Shame" is the prime example of what should be on the GDPR Hall of Shame.

Pros:

Potential to showcase websites that intentionally don't comply or abuse data privacy.

Cons:

Petty, apathetic towards these companies, founder clearly doesn't understand the GDPR (website is not compliant with GDPR).

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8yr ago

Why is it Owen's job to help companies, who had two years to be GDPR complaint, become GDPR complaint? But thank you for standing up for corporations, they definitely need it.

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8yr ago

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Maker

Why side with the companies on this?

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8yr ago

Was this product shared in a GDPR advisor Slack channel? Why are there so many people here concerned about the feelings of corporations failing to be GDPR complaint?

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8yr ago

this product is the opposite of product hunt. Where product hunt tries to highlight good things.

This aims to highlight and mock what it deems to be bad.

Pros:

none

Cons:

mocks companies for moving mountains to comply with a new very broad very strict regulation. While this website violates that regulation

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8yr ago

Moving mountains, huh? The companies shouldn’t have build these mountains in the first place. It’s fair that they get now a share of their medicine

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8yr ago

This is a great read, you have shown how some businesses are implementing it poorly some done with a good tongue in cheek twist. As UK citizen in US this is important to me to who to work with. I just went to the dr who asked me to write down my credit card details and asked if i was ok to store them for future charging... HELL NO! Wait to US companies start doing this all these nasty shady companies gone!

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8yr ago

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@mrpatrickhenry Yes, thank you for seeing the fun side! I made this as a tounge in cheek thing; this is really hard stuff to implement, which I get, but there's some right ways to do this!

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8yr ago

Thanks for this! As an American, I am particularly interested in which companies are shutting down in Europe due to GDPR - it is helpful in knowing who I should avoid doing business with here since they are obviously not willing to respect my data!

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8yr ago

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@thedailyem Thank you so much Emily!

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