Once upon a time most spam emails tended to end up in users SPAM folders, but then along came another cunning plan out of the European Union Bureaucracy, The General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR in the run up to which the world's email users have been increasingly subject to the worlds largest Spam Attack, where it has got to the point where most of the emails users are receiving are GDPR SPAM EMAILS! As companies desperate to be compliant in respect of GDPR are repeatedly asking for further consent for being on their customer mailing lists and are thus breaking OTHER EU regulations against the sending of such emails!

GDPR is INSANE because virtually ALL of the GDPR SPAM emails are not going into the SPAM folders because they are FROM genuine contacts. However, they are SPAM emails because they virtually all carry similar messages requesting a visit to x,y,z boring page to read time wasting statements about the EU's GDPR BS.

I know many out there will state that GDPR is a good thing because in theory it supposedly protects peoples personal data but in practice it probably is not going to make much difference, as the real spammers already ignore the regulations anyway! Whilst small businesses at huge costs are mistakenly being conned by GDPR consultants into wasting money on fear of being fined millions of euros to send out SPAM GDPR EMAILS to their customers! ALL of which is UNNECESSARY! For the fundamental fact that if a user has given consent in the past then that consent is STILL VALID TODAY! Whilst if the sender does not already have consent then they are breaking the law by sending an email ASKING for consent!

So the GDPR consultants are milking small and medium sized business for consultancy fees are doing huge damage to most businesses as they see their hard built customer lists evaporate due to the idiotic spamming asking for consent when they already HAVE consent!

So folks KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON by taking GDPR with a giant pinch of salt and don't be frightened by the mainstream mess media's FEAR headlines, or the sales pitches from the GDPR consultants for 90% of that which they are trying to sell solutions for are UNNECESSARY! and in fact HARMFUL TO YOUR BUSINESS!

Meanwhile the British people on June 23rd 2016 chose to opt out of the European Union! But still British in-boxes are being filled up with EU generated garbage!

By Nadeem Walayat

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk

Nadeem Walayat has over 30 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Nadeem's forward looking analysis focuses on UK inflation, economy, interest rates and housing market. He is the author of five ebook's in the The Inflation Mega-Trend and Stocks Stealth Bull Market series that can be downloaded for Free.

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