{"id":668,"date":"2018-10-26T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=668"},"modified":"2020-12-12T18:30:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T17:30:51","slug":"ripp-off-with-the-gdpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Ripp-off with the GDPR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the past, it was generally about the&nbsp;trade directories, now windy players are trying to exploit the&nbsp;&#8222;GDPR&nbsp;panic&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Recently, a&nbsp;hasty fax message&nbsp;from the &#8222;Data Protection Information Centre&#8220; (in German: &#8222;Datenschutzauskunft-Zentrale&#8220;)&nbsp;went to several companies asking them to fill in and sign the attached forms and send back&nbsp;to the above-mentioned &#8222;Data Protection Information Centre&#8220; in order to comply with the legal obligation to implement the GDPR. The form deals with the registration of enterprises for basic data protection according to EU-GDPR. The small print shows the annual &#8222;basic data protection contribution&#8220; of EUR&nbsp;498 plus VAT as well as the binding order of the service for&nbsp;three!&nbsp;years by the subsequent signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This is&nbsp;a clear case of a&nbsp;fraud attempt, since&nbsp;such an authority as the &#8222;Data Protection Information Centre&#8220; does not exist.&nbsp;Do not react to such attempts, in case of a doubt please&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eprivacy.eu\/en\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, it was generally about the&nbsp;trade directories, now windy players are trying to exploit the&nbsp;&#8222;GDPR&nbsp;panic&#8220;. Recently, a&nbsp;hasty fax message&nbsp;from the<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=668\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}