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As a German who was taught all the dark times of our nation in school, I can confidently say that us causing the second War To End All Wars is almost as bad as this company's behaviour.
Yikes friend... this reads like a different flavour of holocaust denial...
Sorry that it didn't land as an obvious joke. With the ~~NSDAP~~ ~~NPD~~ AfD on such a steep rise, I think I have transcended gallows humour and arrived at necromancer humour levels to be able to cope with this reality.
These shenanigans are likely illegal in the EU:
If people got serious, they'd be looking at some lawsuits and fines.
True, true. We literally omly have a wood furnace, so are absolutely not affected by this, but I'll see how reporting potential GDPR violations in the name of someone else works.
Contact your data protection officer, they collected data that did not need.
And the experiment was to figure out if they can actually do it without getting sued?
It was to figure out if they /really did/ start charging for it, how many people would actually pay.
I hope Tado goes bust because they don't deserve to survive, treating customers like that.
I'd rather they found a business model that made them stable, rather than exploiting their current customers. Fact is, if they go bust then there's à bunch of people left high and dry.
We can helpfully answer that for them by making sure they get sued.