Please read...we may have to take the $$$MR. MARKET$$$ site down

[Louetta]

This stooge is very grateful for all that you do and will follow you to FB; however I like the anonymity that the current site provides whereas facebook is more into the social thing which I tend to shy away from.

Well, not necessarily. You can set your Facebook protections so that only friends can see your pics and whatnots and though I think they want you to use your real name I know people who use their first two names, leaving off the third and then set protections to make them unfindable by searches. Your profile picture can be one of your dog or cat (very common) and your background pic one of the ocean. None of this will prevent you from joining a Mr. Market group provided he recognizes you so he lets you into the group.

[Gary611]

Well, not necessarily. You can set your Facebook protections so that only friends can see your pics and whatnots and though I think they want you to use your real name I know people who use their first two names, leaving off the third and then set protections to make them unfindable by searches. Your profile picture can be one of your dog or cat (very common) and your background pic one of the ocean. None of this will prevent you from joining a Mr. Market group provided he recognizes you so he lets you into the group.

Well, not entirely right. Yes, you strike valid points in the above, but, you do give up a bit of privacy. I've been on FB for several years, my full name is out there ( I will not change all of the above) If someone does a search on you they do get enough info on you without friending you, try it on someone; I like this site and if it moves to FB, you will give up some privacy if you already have an account.

[Louetta]

Well, not entirely right. Yes, you strike valid points in the above, but, you do give up a bit of privacy. I've been on FB for several years, my full name is out there ( I will not change all of the above) If someone does a search on you they do get enough info on you without friending you, try it on someone; I like this site and if it moves to FB, you will give up some privacy if you already have an account.

Consumingly interesting. I now see that if on Facebook one goes to settings and then privacy one has a choice to keep search engines OUTSIDE of Facebook from finding you. Mayhap this is why girls change their ids to something without their last name because you can still be seen from inside Facebook. In any case one can hide lots of stuff from people. Once we are inside a group I don't know, guess strangers there can see you. This does not really trouble me because I've always had to keep things hidden but you are right, it's less private. I have been snagged by people befriending my friends and then they can do/see things on my id that others can't.


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[mrmarket]

I am going to wait and see if anyone actually gets tangled up by this before I make any changes. I'm still not sure whether or not I will be sending out any emails though. I could use Constant Contact to send out the emails, but that would be a pain. Does anyone care if they receive emails or not?

[jiesen]

I check here more often than I check my email... so although it's nice to have the emails, as long as I can still find it here, I'm just as happy, and won't be missing anything.

[Louetta]

I always come here.

[mimo_100]

I always come here.

I always come here to!

[mimo_100]

An email from Zack's today

About Those Privacy Notice Updates – did you see an influx of ‘privacy notice updates’ in your inbox over the past week? You’re not alone. This past week saw the EU rollout and implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, known as the GDPR. These strict rules apply to any company that does business in the EU, even if that company does not have a physical location in Europe. The rules contain new privacy rights and data collection responsibilities and affect hundreds of thousands of companies. Hence, the slew of privacy notice updates. The rules are not insignificant in scope and penalty, either. Extreme fines for violations are possible, which could mean being penalized up to 4% of a firm's worldwide annual revenue or 20 million euro, whichever is higher.4

[mrmarket]

An email from Zack's today

About Those Privacy Notice Updates – did you see an influx of ‘privacy notice updates’ in your inbox over the past week? You’re not alone. This past week saw the EU rollout and implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, known as the GDPR. These strict rules apply to any company that does business in the EU, even if that company does not have a physical location in Europe. The rules contain new privacy rights and data collection responsibilities and affect hundreds of thousands of companies. Hence, the slew of privacy notice updates. The rules are not insignificant in scope and penalty, either. Extreme fines for violations are possible, which could mean being penalized up to 4% of a firm's worldwide annual revenue or 20 million euro, whichever is higher.4

20 million euro...plus I am sure there are thousands of lawyers poring over sites just like this, looking to enact civil litigation. oy

[mimo_100]

20 million euro...plus I am sure there are thousands of lawyers poring over sites just like this, looking to enact civil litigation. oy

The key phrase is "...These strict rules apply to any company that does business in the EU, even if that company does not have a physical location in Europe."

Does MrMarket consider this forum "doing business"? Here is your disclaimer.

Register for free and you'll be able to post messages on this forum and also receive emails when $$$ MR. MARKET $$$ makes his own trades. ($$$MR. MARKET$$$ is a proprietary investor and does not provide individual financial advice. The stocks mentioned on this forum do not represent individual buy or sell recommendations and should not be viewed as such. Individual investors should consider speaking with a professional investment adviser before making any investment decisions.)

In my opinion you are sharing your hobby with whomever is interested. You do not charge anything. I can't see why GDPR would apply to you at all.

[mrmarket]

The key phrase is "...These strict rules apply to any company that does business in the EU, even if that company does not have a physical location in Europe."

Does MrMarket consider this forum "doing business"? Here is your disclaimer.

Register for free and you'll be able to post messages on this forum and also receive emails when $$$ MR. MARKET $$$ makes his own trades. ($$$MR. MARKET$$$ is a proprietary investor and does not provide individual financial advice. The stocks mentioned on this forum do not represent individual buy or sell recommendations and should not be viewed as such. Individual investors should consider speaking with a professional investment adviser before making any investment decisions.)

In my opinion you are sharing your hobby with whomever is interested. You do not charge anything. I can't see why GDPR would apply to you at all.

I hope you're right. I do derive ad revenue from this site which you contribute by visiting.

[Louetta]

I hope you're right. I do derive ad revenue from this site which you contribute by visiting.

How say? Do you get more money if we visit the ad sites? 'Cuz I'll start visiting.

Money, methinks, has little to do with it. Facebook is free to users but yet they are still in trouble for sharing their data.

[jiesen]

I hope you're right. I do derive ad revenue from this site which you contribute by visiting.

If you haven't considered it already, you might want to look at registering as a non-profit. As long as you put all the revenues you have back into running the site, and you're not out to make money with this message board (I'm pretty sure you do well enough not to need that) you should probably then be exempt from any rules that would apply to a for-profit business, which it sounds like is what that new GDPR rules are for. Facebook, by the way, Louetta, is very much a for-profit business... much different than what we have here I'm pretty sure.

Of course, I'm no lawyer, and I don't even play one on the internet.... so take what I said with several shakers of salt. Just some food for thought!

[blindsquirrel]

If you haven't considered it already, you might want to look at registering as a non-profit. As long as you put all the revenues you have back into running the site, and you're not out to make money with this message board (I'm pretty sure you do well enough not to need that) you should probably then be exempt from any rules that would apply to a for-profit business, which it sounds like is what that new GDPR rules are for. Facebook, by the way, Louetta, is very much a for-profit business... much different than what we have here I'm pretty sure.

Of course, I'm no lawyer, and I don't even play one on the internet.... so take what I said with several shakers of salt. Just some food for thought!

I'm no lawyer either, but nonprofits are not exempt. Here is a quote from the link below: "Nonprofits and charitable organizations have the same obligation to abide by GDPR as any other corporation."

Reference: https://www.boardeffect.com/blog/wil...ect-nonprofit/

[Louetta]

Why don't we cease and desist with the wild assed guesses and just get on board for whatever he decides to do, which hopefully will be continuation in some form.