  
| Author: | WoutR  | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2024 18:02 | | Subject: | Re: New policy on Forum sales posts | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
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| In Administrative, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Administrative, Teup writes:
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...which is actually against EU law
https://sellforte.com/en/blog/eu-law-change-on-promotions/
I mean, it's not my business so I don't really care, but if it's
BL wish to be law-compliant, this isn't enough. They'd have to moderate
the sale function itself, not just the forum. (And, talking about law-compliancy,
change several other things, such as stop pumping seller's mailboxes full
of IP addresses of their buyers, which is a GDPR violation because it counts
as private data and it counts as irrelevant for the purpose).
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BL is law-compliant when BL risks something and, AFAIK, BL doesn’t risk anything
here, only the sellers do. Actually, also AFAIK, nothing says marketplaces should
enforce those laws in acting, preventing, warning the sellers, applying to the
local authorities or whatever.
OTOH, members can apply to the local authorities to investigate the sellers.
But then I won’t bet on the chances of something happening to those small fishes.
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Ehm... I am no specialist but at first sight BrickLink does risk liability if
they share private data that is not relevant for the purpose. (A seller needs
the buyer's address to ship an order, but does for example not need that
IP address). If this data is collected and shared, then BrickLink is the party
doing that. By offering their services in the EU, the GDPR applies. If anyone
files a complaint to the relevant authorities, I think that could make BrickLink
liable for 1) possibly collecting more data than needed, and 2) a data leak because
they share the information with others (the sellers). The related fines can be
serious, so BL does risk something. Compared to other offenders, I think BL is
not at the top of their priority list, but that is no reason not to comply with
the law.
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Message is in Reply To:  Re: New policy on Forum sales posts - SylvainLS (46) | [...] BL is law-compliant when BL risks something and, AFAIK, BL doesn’t risk anything here, only the sellers do. Actually, also AFAIK, nothing says marketplaces should enforce [...]
(6 months ago, Nov 16, 2023, to Administrative) |
Message Has 1 Reply: | Re: New policy on Forum sales posts - SylvainLS (46) | [...] I was only answering the “BL should moderate the sale feature” part, not the part (in parentheses) about IP addresses. IIRC, I didn’t say anything about IP addresses [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 11, 2024, to Administrative) |
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