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Boro Boy
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ALERT: How to stop companies selling your data
Interesting reading and you may want to take advantage of the links in the following article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... 39ab8440e7
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Re: ALERT: How to stop companies selling your data
Thank you, Boro Boy
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Re: ALERT: How to stop companies selling your data
Most of the links are for the USA
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Re: ALERT: How to stop companies selling your data
unsurprising as its a link to the Washington Post.
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Re: ALERT: How to stop companies selling your data
Where laws around data privacy are entirely different to those here in the EU.
The first piece of advice is universal, though - Don't give them the data in the first place.
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Re: ALERT: How to stop companies selling your data
Most websites you are likely to use are also likely based on US servers...
I would be interested if anyone has completed all the steps highlighted in the original link and how easy they found it... I guess it would be very difficult to measure how successful the actions are; as its the same as having a firewall I guess, you never know what it may have saved you from...!?!
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I doubt it. For example, the likes of Google and Facebook have data centres in Ireland. I can't imagine why any UK retailer or bank, for example, would want to put their severs 4,000 miles away on the other side of the Atlantic.
What would be the point? Of what relevance is the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call registry?Boro Boy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27 2019 7:07pmI would be interested if anyone has completed all the steps highlighted in the original link and how easy they found it... I guess it would be very difficult to measure how successful the actions are; as its the same as having a firewall I guess, you never know what it may have saved you from...!?!
In the UK we have a different set-up including GDPR.
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I'm not cutting edge enough to jump in first.Boro Boy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27 2019 7:07pmI would be interested if anyone has completed all the steps highlighted in the original link and how easy they found it... I guess it would be very difficult to measure how successful the actions are; as its the same as having a firewall I guess, you never know what it may have saved you from...!?!
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