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> I don't need your consent for any of it, because even though the information may be about you, we understand that it's "my" data.

You do need content though, if I provide my email in a social setting I implicitly give consent to birthday parties etc. I didn't consent to you selling my email as part of a bundle. If people found out you were providing data to random people at least a stern talking to would happen.

Under GDPR it works this way for business too, just because I gave you data for a specific purpose doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it. I'm not aware of other jurisdictions.



This is also my understanding of the law.

GDPR also prohibits me from making a list of my friends' addresses and then trading that list to the Girl Guides in exchange for biscuits.


So if I give you my phone number and you store it in Google Contacts, and I later decide I don't want you to have my phone number anymore, under GDPR can I request that Google delete my number from your contacts? After all, I never consented to you sharing my phone number with Google.


So... Gdpr doesn't apply to individuals or a person who happens to use a random social media app to find out such freely available info




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