https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23831794-700-those-gdpr-emails-should-stop-soon-but-our-data-nightmare-wont/

Organisations of all stripes – from Facebook to the UK government to that hipster coffee shop on the corner you once gave your email address to – have been filling inboxes with variations on the same question, in anticipation of a European Union regulation that comes into force on 25 May.

A central tenet of the new …