[In Omnibus]

Originally Posted by paradoxG(r)eek

Kris, there are long discussions over Internet about this, and till now nobody can say for sure what's the real meaning of this term.

A user can ask for removal of his content. This is for sure. The problem is what is the meaning of "my own content". eg for sure can be a photo that I post in Facebook. But can be an article? Nobody can say. Also (as I've read somewhere), there is difference betweein posting some thoughts (blog post) than commenting in someone's else post.

In short words.... very complicated terms. On the same way, nobody can be 100% sure, if it talks for EU Citizens, or EU Residents, or that "Data Subject" covers even eg Americans being in holidays in EU.

All the GDPR is concerned with is personal data. In reality, how many people are going to spend their time requesting that every site that has their personal data remove it? Probably not many. The sites that would need to be most concerned are those that have credit card or banking data from a one-time transaction because the odds they see the customer again to agree with the GDPR are slim and none in many cases. For the site that only collects e-mail addresses and IP addresses for the purposes of spam prevention there is nothing about which to be concerned.

Personally I've decided the EU can bugger off. I don't deal with anywhere near the number of EU members it would take to justify jumping through hoops. I run a clean and respectable service where members are anonymous (personal identifying information is strictly prohibited) and I do not solicit or sell data or do any of the other things the GDPR is designed to prevent.

Unfortunately for some their primary customer / membership base is EU or EEU and they are therefore required to at least meet the minimum GDPR requirements, which include a method of requesting the deletion of all personal data. Again, I submit very few will actually go to the trouble of requesting this. It's the "informed consent" from existing one-time customers issue that is going to be far more difficult to resolve. If you e-mail them to ask them if they want to consent to the GDPR on your site is that spam? I can't answer that.