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Surely this a massive breach of GDPR ?


IANAL but this discussion of the topic seems to indicate that you are correct if any SuperHuman users send emails with invisible tracking pixels to anyone in the EU.

https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/email-tracking/


‘Massive’? I’d be surprised if they have anywhere near the incidents of tracking pixels that a bog standard small ad network has.

No one will be able to tell accurately until a ruling comes down but I believe this is a gdpr violation but one they won’t be fined for if they do basic location filtering for their tracking pixels.


A "bog standard small ad network" does not typically have the email address of the ad viewer.


I was thinking, massive is the sense that any (business) user of the service might be considered in breach of GDPR for obtaining personal datan without consent.




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