{"id":42330,"date":"2018-05-24T03:24:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T01:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/24\/last-minute-frenzy-of-gdpr-emails-unleashes-torrent-of-spam-and-memes\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T03:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T01:24:28","slug":"last-minute-frenzy-of-gdpr-emails-unleashes-torrent-of-spam-and-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=42330","title":{"rendered":"Last-minute frenzy of GDPR emails unleashes &#039;torrent&#039; of spam \u2013 and memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inboxes around the world are clogging up as deadline for companies to comply with new regulations nearsA last-minute flurry of emails from companies trying to retain customers ahead of the deadline for Europe\u2019s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has prompted a slew of complaints &#8211; and memes &#8211; on social media.Friday is the last day for companies to comply with GDPR regulations and as a result, inboxes around the world are clogging up with emails warnings that \u201cthe privacy policy has changed\u201d and pleas to \u201cjust click here so we can stay in touch\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/may\/24\/last-minute-frenzy-of-gdpr-emails-unleashes-torrent-of-spam-and-memes\" target=\"_blank\">Last-minute frenzy of GDPR emails unleashes &#039;torrent&#039; of spam \u2013 and memes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inboxes around the world are clogging up as deadline for companies to comply with new regulations nearsA last-minute flurry of emails from companies trying to retain customers ahead of the deadline for Europe\u2019s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has prompted a slew of complaints &#8211; and memes &#8211; on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}