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GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out

posted by chromas on Wednesday April 25 2018, @09:59PM   Printer-friendly

MrPlow writes:

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This is not a great time to be tone deaf about privacy. Between Facebook's rapid fall from grace to the grand launch of the EU's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) privacy legislation next month, people are more sensitive than ever about their personal information.

Into this climate, Warsaw-based GOG -- Good Old Games, owned by CD Projekt Group -- launched a user profiles feature that many feel lacks important privacy guards, such as the ability to completely hide your profile, as well as the fact that it's opt-out rather than opt-in, and that the site announced it in a forum post (where many won't see it) rather than a blast email.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by TheRaven on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:19AM (3 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:19AM (#672096) Journal
    They also sent out an email about their updated privacy policy for GDPR compliance today. At the bottom was an email address for questions about their privacy policy: privacy@gog.com

    I suggest that everyone who is unhappy with this development email them.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Snospar on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:52AM (1 child)

    by Snospar (5366) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:52AM (#672100)

    Good point, I'd read that mail and skimmed the Privacy Policy for any major changes but if they mention the "Profile Sharing" I must have missed it. E-mail has been sent expressing my disappointment and requesting any future defaults be set to "Private".

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @12:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @12:10PM (#672559)

      GOG haven't emailed any users about the profiles or new privacy settings.

      They pre-warned the forum go-ers the Friday before the launch (where the privacy concerns were immediately raised and they got warned within a couple of posts that it was going to blow up in their face!) and an item in their site news feed on launch, which is 3 articles away from dropping off the front page at this time.

  • (Score: 2) by boltronics on Friday April 27 2018, @03:18AM

    by boltronics (580) on Friday April 27 2018, @03:18AM (#672455) Homepage Journal
    All I got was this:

    Subject: We’ve updated our Privacy and Cookie Policies!

    If you can see this text it means that your email client couldn't display our newsletter properly.
    Please visit this link to view the newsletter on our website: http://www.gog.com/newsletter/20180425_Updates_Legal_EN [gog.com]

    - GOG.com Team

    Or to put another way, your newsletter couldn't display in my e-mail client properly. I don't waste time clicking on links and giving up my privacy to read e-mails from people who can't even be bothered to include a plain text version of their message. So yeah, I didn't know about this. But screw GOG.

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