[Wolves] GDPR compliance

[Richard Barker]

This is something I'd like some help clarifying. I've had emails from some
web sites I use essentially saying "if you don't respond, will assume
consent". I thought that wasn't good enough under GDPR, and you had to seek
active consent?

Cheers,

Rich.

On Mon, 21 May 2018, 11:09 am Ron Wellsted via Wolves, <
wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
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