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Dear @EUCommission — a proposal for a new directive called the

, the Consumer Information Act.

Once a year on a fixed date, 1st of November, all companies with which you have a contract that involves payment must inform you via the consumers preferred contact method (e-mail, post) about what contract you have, the amount per year and the current conditions to cancel said contract. Banks, insurances, Telcos, social networks, streaming services, etc. Inspired by fosstodon.org/@grueproof/11352

FosstodonChris Miller (@grueproof@fosstodon.org)Casual reminder that next Friday is Unsubscribe Day, when marketers will make it easy to unsubscribe from all the dead weight by contacting you all at the same time. #UnsubscribeDay (Help me make this a thing. This needs to be a thing.)
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

@EUCommission Could be extended to the

— Consumer Data Information Act

that forces all companies that have data about the consumer to send a notice, once a year on the 1st of November, via the consumers preferred method of contact (e-mail, post) about the fact that they have data stored and the rights under to receive said data or give notice about the consumer’s right to delete said data and how to do exactly that in a secure and verifiable way.

@jwildeboer @EUCommission Maybe we should exclude the SMEs from this obligation, or they could be out of business if they'd need to send paper letters. Although VC-based startups also fall in that category. At least exclude all not for profit companies.

@jwildeboer
I feel like this could heavily backfire. Similar to the weponoized cookie-banners.

But a great middle ground would be a law that forces companies to inform people about it as soon as they get data about them the first time.
All the "Partner Companies" of data collectors would hate this, because until now most people aren't aware of them.