The Experiment: Day 242 ~ A PSA, The New EU Privacy Law & My Newsletter…

Dear Ones, this is a “Public Service Announcement” in lieu of my normal post…

Well, this is just maddening, scary, confusing, and overwhelming. Because of the new EU privacy law going into effect this Friday the 25th everyone who has a newsletter like the one you get if you are on my mailing list is affected. You may have seen people sending you emails asking you to opt in to their list again, and if you don’t you won’t receive their emails anymore. And here’s what is happening to a large extent — we are all so bombarded by so much email many will just delete those emails without even reading them, won’t resubscribe to the list, and when the law goes into effect and the old list is deleted they will no longer get something they subscribed to in good faith and had no intention of leaving. Frankly, it’s a mess.

Now the thing is this has nothing to do with anyone in the U.S, or other countries outside the EU. I have 218 subscribers on my list, most have been with me for years now, and very few are in the EU. According to the Live Feed widget which I enjoy watching just to see where people are coming from I get lots of European traffic but probably the majority of those folks are not on my list. Now I’m told I may have to even remove that widget because IT may not comply. I have written to the company about this.

I have been so overwhelmed by all of this I was in tears over the weekend, it is not an easy or quick fix, and I don’t want to lose longtime readers. I have a meeting at 6 with someone who is going to help me try to get this sorted out. I just wanted you all to know that I am aware of this, I am doing my best to be compliant, I hope I do everything right, but I am one person wading through a tangle of information (and misinformation! there’s a lot of that out there now too!) and scared, and just hoping I can get this sorted out.

If you are on my mailing list you put yourself there and you can unsubscribe at any time. I do not use your information for any purpose other than sending out my posts with my blog updates, so I hope you will all bear with me as I wade through this, and I deeply hope if I have to send you an email and ask you to resubscribe if you’d like you will open it and work with me on this. I only want you on my list if you want to be here with me, but I don’t want you to miss out on something because you disregard an email I send. I really appreciate your help and understanding. This should not affect you if you are in the US or outside of the EU but until I have this meeting to try to get things sorted I’m not sure exactly what I will have to do. I will keep you posted and I thank you, sincerely, for bearing with me at this time.

Best and Love to one and all…

The Experiment ~A 365 Day Search For Truth, Beauty &
Happiness: Day 1 ~ Introduction To The Project
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Yoda

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