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When wilk Mumsnet or MPs challenge tabloids that take site chats and publish without permission ?

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WillLokireturn · 15/05/2019 23:11

It really worries me that this is a limited (log in or search) niche forum for relatively safe chats (limited to those that are interested) and that national tabloids steal information, publish it generically as widely, and share information that might be personal only MN site has consent to, without permission of the OP for that wider audience

It so contravenes spirit of permission for this site only and what GDPR means. Why is no one challenging them nor reporting tabloids to regulator for this?

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WillLokireturn · 15/05/2019 23:21

*site not wire 🙈

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flowery · 15/05/2019 23:21

No one is “reporting them to the regulator” because they haven’t breached anything.

They are not “stealing information”, they are using information posters on MN have placed in the public domain available to anyone with an internet connection.

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WillLokireturn · 15/05/2019 23:20

Erm yes. And your point is? It's a limited wire that has limited pemission to record and store within confines of this service . But no one is giving explicit permission for tabloids to quote it to a far wider audience. Infact most OPs aren't asked and end up asking for posts to be deleted when tabloids take their personal information and misuse it. It's personal information by all stretches of the term.

It is so wrong

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Dinosforall · 15/05/2019 23:14

MN is huge. It is also freely available to anyone to read.