Saturday, May 26, 2018

Privacy and the Roads More Traveled

On Friday, May 25, 2018,  some new privacy rules from the European Union went into effect. The last few days have been an unnecessary but mostly fun walk down memory. Every business that I have ever had contact with has sent me an email letting me there are privacy rules from thr European Union going into effect on Friday, May 25, 2018. Deleting emails brought to mind a winery visit near Barcelona, several trips home on my favorite airline, unfulfilled to stay at a luxury hotel, interesting freelance writing assignments, cool outfits, restaurant searches in Amsterdam and other misadventures and adventures.

ViaGogo, Simon & Schuster UK, Avery office products, Lookout Mobile Security, Wyndham Rewards, Alibris, VapoShop [that was a gift for a friend, I swear], Elbarri winery, Side Design Hotel Hamburg, Kempenski Hotels, H & M, Smiley’s Pizza, Aegean Airlines, Eurowings, Ebay, Subway, Citti Park, Die Insel Hamburg, AXS, Foodora, Quandoo [a Dutch version of OpenTable], Segura Viudas, Discovery hotel alliance, Transport for London, Scandic Hotels, Handesblatt Global, Mama Mae’s Cupcake Club [I don’t think I have ever been a member of this club. I do like knowing a club like this exists.], British Airways, Ritz-Carlton, Little Brown Book Group, and Only Connect thank you for the heads up. There are several companies I have not heard from. Should I be relieved, worried or angry that Amazon hasn’t said a peep to me about its privacy policy?

I am definitely upset about my inability to access a few American websites that a part of my daily diet.




Because they are "engaged," I have hope, they will return soon. Until then, I still have New York Times.