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GDPR Hall of Shame

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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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Stephen M. Walker II

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?

7yr ago

Write Together

Maker

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

7yr 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.

7yr ago

Stephen M. Walker II

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.

7yr 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

7yr ago

Write Together

Maker

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

7yr ago

But is the hall of shame GDPR compliant?

7yr ago

Write Together

Maker

@owenandrews_ Except for Google Analytics, yes! Love to replace that with something else...

7yr ago

Dropbox DocSend

@ow Google Analytics can’t be used for website analytics anymore if one wants to be GDPR compliant?

7yr ago

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. 👎

7yr ago

Sooraj Chandran

Oyster™

@owenandrews_ Wont anonymising the IP make it GDPR compliant ?

7yr ago

Illegal Analytics Scanner

@owenandrews_ @ow i'll have a solution for gdpr approved stats tracking.... soon.

7yr ago

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).

7yr 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.

7yr ago

Write Together

Maker

Why side with the companies on this?

7yr ago

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.

7yr ago

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.

7yr ago

Write Together

@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.

7yr ago

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