Since I’m the one who has been making the GDPR case, this is clearly directed at me. My response: what makes you think I haven’t raised the concerns as loudly before?
Here’s a contribution (one of several) from me in a thread from January 2020: Why is Plex "sharing my activities" with Facebook? - #31 by banjopotato
Are you at all concerned with the GDPR implications of this? I’m a citizen and resident of the European Union and you’ve effectively transmitted personally-identifying information of mine to a third party without my explicit consent. I never opted in to your sharing of this information and you never gave me an opportunity to opt out. Seems to me you’ve handled this in a way that puts you in violation of the regulation. This is a data breach for which the penalties (per case) are prohibitive. As in: enough to bankrupt your company. See this for example. I would sincerely hate to see that happen to Plex, because I like your product. But, seriously, how could you have let this happen?
There are threads dating from 2018 in which others have pointed out Plex’s flouting of GDPR.
So, do I pass your purity test? Am I authorised to make the case?
