They Will Try Everything Until Someth8Ng Sticks

[cassa333]

It smacks of desperation when they try so hard to find wrong doing.

Scrape enough barrels and eventually you’ll find one bad apple. But one bad apple doesn’t make the cider rotten.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45589004

[kvalidir]

Have you ever actually made Cider Cassa? :)

[douglas9401]

"It smacks of desperation when they try so hard to find wrong doing."

It seems that data protection authorities are ensuring the proper use of data collected in a given scenario.
You seem to be confusing that with the proverbial in a brewery.

I doubt very much if you'd want them to turn a blind eye based on your personal voting record, that would be undemocratic and grossly unfair.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Wrong-doing?

Obama was praised for using exactly the same harvested data when he won his first term.

Accept the use of cookies (to tailor the "customer" experience) and you give the web provider a saleable commodity for advertisers and political lobbyists. All explicitly stated on the T&C which we all tick, but only some of us read.

[douglas9401]

Obama? The Barackster? He's moved into British politics?

Appreciate the heads-up.

[cassa333]

It’s more about any avenue to discredit anything to do with leave winning the referendum.

[Gromit]

GDRP was introduced to catch companies misusing our data. Anyone targeting their website and advertising at EU countries have to comply with the law here.
AnalyticsIQ have allegedly broken the law. They will be investigated, and if the case is proven, they will be fined. If there is no case to answer, they will not be fined.
Just because it is a cause you may sympathise with does not give them an exemption from obey the law.

[sp1814]

//But one bad apple doesn’t make the cider rotten.//

Yes it does.

[Spicerack]

It's not known as the Brussels Broadcasting Company for nothing.
There's got to be more to it than the £4,000,000 they receive from the EU every year.

[Adfa]

What has the ICO got to do with the BBC or am I missing something

[Spicerack]

^ Because if they were investigating The Remain campaign you'd never hear about it.

[Adfa]

This news item has been reported on Sky News, ITV News, BBC News and several newspapers so why single out the BBC

[dannyk13]

Adfa Spicerack is making the point that the BBC are anti Brexit.

[Adfa]

A funny pair of spectacles some people wear

[New Judge]

"I doubt very much if you'd want them to turn a blind eye based on your personal voting record,..."

How would anyone find out cassa's personal voting record?

Anyway, I'm afraid that anyone who puts any of their personal data up on a public website such as Facebook or whatever and then expects the GDPR (or anything else) to keep those details secure is living in a different world to me.