GDPR Hall of Shame

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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GDPR Hall of Shame gallery image
GDPR Hall of Shame gallery image
Launch tags:
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Launch Team

What do you think? …

Owen Andrews
But is the hall of shame GDPR compliant?
Owen Williams
Maker
@owenandrews_ Except for Google Analytics, yes! Love to replace that with something else...
Nick Frost
@ow Google Analytics can’t be used for website analytics anymore if one wants to be GDPR compliant?
Sébastien Vercammen
@owenandrews_ No it's not, it shares data with FOUR different parties: Twitter, Cloudflare, Google Fonts, Google Tag Manager (analytics) and doesn't have a Privacy Policy. 👎
Sooraj Chandran
@owenandrews_ Wont anonymising the IP make it GDPR compliant ?
Paul Jarvis
@owenandrews_ @ow i'll have a solution for gdpr approved stats tracking.... soon.
Stephen M. Walker II
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?
Owen Williams
Maker
@aethelyon I'll happily make the antithesis to this, gdprshowcase.com, if people want to send them over!
Naeem
@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.
Stephen M. Walker II
@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.
Scott Bowler
@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
Owen Williams
Maker
@aethelyon @heynaeem Eh? They've had two years to prepare. Sympathy, yes, but also - there is no excuse!
Sébastien Vercammen

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).

jeff!
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.
Owen Williams
Maker
Why side with the companies on this?
Sébastien Vercammen
@ow Because what indie maker building a project to earn money is not also a business? There is no "companies", there's just you and me, and your imagined line where one day you'll call a friend of mine (trying to build a project) a "company" and shit on them just because you didn't like their compliance and didn't want to be empathetic.
Sébastien Vercammen
@the_real_jw I offered an alternative, I didn't say it was his job. Empathy isn't a bad thing to have. There's also no "corporations", you're just using the term to separate yourself from others because you're enjoying throwing stones. Every indie building a project to earn money is a business and could be posted on this degrading website for no reason. Some of the companies posted are even GDPR compliant, but Owen didn't like how they did it. His own website isn't even GDPR compliant, but his only response is to get irrationally defensive about "fighting the companies!!". That's immature.
Owen Williams
@sebastienvercammen wow - I don't really think it matters if it's an indie maker or not. Your job, as a creator, is now to comply with the regulation and give a shit about your users from day one. I don't care if you're not a business; you now have a responsibility to be mindful whatever you do, from square one. No kidding, that includes giving a crap about privacy, and getting consent right. Like I said elsewhere, I don't think the law is a perfect solution, but we, as makers, have been giving consumer rights way too little thought in the past because we're too busy moving fast and breaking things rather than caring about the humans we're actually productizing.