Ship Your Enemies GDPR

Send your enemies a GDPR request

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Send your enemies a GDPR request

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This tool will help you send them a GDPR Data Access Request designed to waste as much of their time as possible. They are legally required to respond to your request within 30 days

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I don't think the intention of this application is healthy and makes any sense. The stemming point of the web page is completely unethical. Please, Product Hunt - remove any hostile apps that ignite unfriendly manner.

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6yr ago

@gorkemcetin I think the point of it is to show how unhealthy the current laws are.

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6yr ago

@nemosaurus I believe there are numerous ways to show how unhealthy the current laws may be, rather than harming your "enemy".

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6yr ago

@gorkemcetin I mean, if the law is abusive in nature, and the person thinks it should be gone, what is a better way to prove it than by demonstrating how abusive they are with a proof of concept app like the one the OP has created?

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6yr ago

Hustle X

@gorkemcetin you're basically arguing for censorship - which is the way that the internet is heading nowadays anyway. This is the #1 product of the day, it shows that people want it on the site. Just because something doesn't fit your views, doesn't mean it should be removed from anywhere. Free speech should be allowed and democracy allows people to vote on what they want to see/do not want.

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6yr ago

@_jacksmith This application is abusive and harmful to others, period. It is harmful to others regardless of the fact that it is #1. Would your thoughts change if it were #10? If you think people are okey to see apps doing harm than good on this platform, I don't have any further comments - but doing harm & being abusive shouldn't be confused with free speech.

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6yr ago

Sketch Hunt

I think we all saw this risk coming thanks to GDPR, a high volume slow drip “denial of service” attack via the policy framework. If you hit a small company with thousands of requests all on the same day and for multiple days in a row, their ability to respond within 30 days will be burdensome if not impossible.

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6yr ago

Brutal Teardowns

@jydesign Does anyone sell GPDR-request-insurance?

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6yr ago

@jydesign Doubtful. Small companies should have made an easy way for users to export their personal data as required by the GDPR. You could just respond to these requests in a bit of a lazy fashion by sending that export. For many of the questions in this request (from the website), the answers are required to be in a privacy policy, so you could just link to that to cover half of the questions, or just paste the entire thing in the response directly. In summary, Questions 2-9 are all generic and answered with a standard, and proper, privacy policy. Question 1 can be answered with a data export. So you'd be spending... less than 30 seconds per request to deal with this: run a data export, reply with an email with an attachment of the data export + a paste of your entire privacy policy. I'm aware the request asks for specific external services, etc. I can't recall to what extent the GDPR requires detail on some of these matters. Some services provide a detailed list of these in their privacy policy already. Larger companies tend not to. For something like Google, I imagine the list would be so broad they'd have trouble structuring this reasonably (or perhaps even having a comprehensive list of everything). I'd be interested to see how a large data processor would respond to this request.

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6yr ago

Sketch Hunt

@mandeep Sorry about that errant earlier reply, the iOS app was behaving oddly. I appreciate these details and realize my initial reply could seem FUD-ish to some. Any time spent responding to or rejecting fake GDPR requests is a waste of time for a company, especially a small one. So, suggesting that 30 second per request is no big deal or is not prohibitive to doing the work a company is actually built to do, seems grossly dismissive of the foolishness of both THIS product existing and the current/future ways in which GDPR may be leveraged to do as much harm as good. The product above even states " designed to waste as much of their time as possible" and in their FAQ state the purpose is "To show that GDPR is fucking stupid". Some are saying that sending a barrage of fake requests will not be crippling, but it's not productive either. 1000 requests at 30 sec per request are about 8.3 hours cumulative. In addition, the presence of these 'spam' requests will have the risk of obscuring the small number of legitimate requests that may also be coming in.

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6yr ago

@jydesign are you a GDPR expert? Responding within 30 days can just be "We'll look into. Due to the high volume of requests we'll try our best to provide you with the info in 30 days." No regulator will harm you if you can show case a flood of requests like that.

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6yr ago

Typeform

Hunter

Inspired by ShipYourEnemiesGlitter, this is meant to be sent to your enemies so they loose time (and potentially money) answering GDPR requests.

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6yr ago

BorderWait

GDPR sucks in the eyes of companies and advertisers. Nowhere in here are the benefits to the users mentioned. According to the FAQ: > compliance costs for US firms estimated at $150b (2500x fine amount) So because companies are spending too much we should let them get away with whatever they want? It's about time that some regulations came into place. GDPR might not be perfect, but it's definitely a step in the right direction.

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6yr ago

BorderWait

@jerre_baum I am not Google's biggest fan but I don't see how them benefiting from it it's an absolute negative. Sure, maybe receiving some of this requests it's a pain but maybe it's reflecting a problem in how the data is handled more than in the legislation. We are going from having nothing to having a process, people are still scrambling, that doesn't mean we cannot strive to do better.

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6yr ago

@duiker101 From my experience with the users, most people are more annoyed at having to click all the consent boxes on all the websites and deal with all the offline absurdity (e.g. attendance lists being forbidden, etc.) than they are satisfied with their data being handled differently in any way (in fact they don't notice the latter at all). What you wrote is basically how the people responsible for GDPR pat themselves on the back for the job well done.

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6yr ago

Just goes to show the quality of products is getting shittier by the day on PH. FFS this is the top product of the day.

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6yr ago

Hustle X

@shoaibalich or it shows that people like it and agree with the cause that it is highlighting.

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6yr ago

@shoaibalich @_jacksmith I guess I'm missing the cause it's highlighting here then? The GDPR gives data subjects rights that they should have in regards to their data. This is malicious usage of the rights granted to waste company time to 'comply'. A law can't really address for all forms of abuse without adding limitations to rights, and these limitations will ultimately be exploited by companies in bad faith. What do you propose the GDPR do to ensure data subjects have these same rights, and yet prevent against these kinds of frivolous requests? If a company just didn't respond to such a request, or replied with a lousy response, the user would have to complain to the DPAs if they wished to pursue it further. And I imagine the DPAs wouldn't look upon this favourably. I highly doubt any (especially small) company served with this nonsense would experience repercussions for failing to respond 'in full detail'.

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6yr ago

GDPR doesn't suck. It is an extremely useful tool. Just download the template letters from Github https://github.com/good-lly/gdpr...

Pros:

Merges personal data into a template letter

Cons:

Given his opinion on data protection (see his comments regarding GDPR sucking), I probably wouldn't trust him.

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6yr ago

Err, no. GDPR is meant to be useful, but sadly, as numerous other legislation, it was written by people that are out of touch with the subject of it.

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6yr ago

Hustle X

"GDPR doesn't suck" - that's your opinion. many people would argue that it does suck and dis-proportionally hurts startups vs big companies like google which can afford to have lawyers etc to respond to requests.

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6yr ago

Tab Tosser

Attempts to misuse regulation that protects individuals. Should be removed from Product Hunt.

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Literally nothing

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Unethical

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6yr ago

Hustle X

"Should be removed from Product Hunt" lol, why? this is the internet, did you hear of free speech before? what if I want to be able to submit a gdpr request

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6yr ago

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