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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 7428621" data-attributes="member: 13107">(Any lawyers out there who could summarize the major provisions of the GDPR?  I've taken a short course in what the GDPR means, but I'm not a lawyer and don't think I could adequately summarize what is in the law.  There a probably lots of folks here who have only just heard about the law, or who have not learned about it in detail, who would well receive such a summary.)Wouldn't user posts be of a different category than user personal information?  GDPR is about collecting personal data.  (I thought that posts were more like "letters to the editor" as far as how they are handled legally.)I don't think a one time "opt-in" works.  Before personal information can be collected, the user must be supplied with certain information, including a precise statement of what data is being collected and how it will be used.  Any change to that requires a new opt in.One thing about GDPR is that it is viral: If you (as a company holding personal data) are requested to remove data, you must pass along that request to other companies to whom the data was given.I was just reading that countries outside of the EU may take up GDPR, or substantial subsets thereof, as their data policy.  A collision between policies as reflected in the GDPR and US policies seems inevitable ...Thx!TomB</blockquote>