GDPR is a Funny Four-Letter Word

A little humor to ease the pain…

Happy GDPR Day! Email inboxes everywhere rejoice as “the silence of the spam” begins today (May 25, 2018) thanks to the new EU data privacy law, known by the acronym GDPR. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s fair to say that the majority of us have been on the receiving end of a GDPR compliance email within the last week.

While the consequences of non-compliance are no laughing matter, the entire online world has been reacting with humor over the mounds of GDPR messages they’ve been receiving. To celebrate GDPR deadline day, which conveniently coincides with National Wine Day in the US, we’ve poured a fresh glass of funny and collected some of our favorite laughs from GDPR Day.

Star Wars director, Rian Johnson, wins the internet with this meme:

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— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) May 24, 2018

Every inbox in the world right now:

All those GDPR emails that felt like a stream of bad breakup texts:

My entire inbox is beginning to feel like the ramblings of a desperate ex-boyfriend #GDPR pic.twitter.com/3sFe5B09LC

— Sarah O’Connor (@sarahoconnor_) May 23, 2018

Winter is coming…

GDPR had some breaking out into song lyrics:

Hey I just met you and this is crazy But here’s my number so I, the data subject, has given explicit consent to the processing of this personal data for one or more specified purposes per article 9 section 2A of the General Data Protection Regulation (#GDPR) to call me maybe — John Egan (@jegania) May 24, 2018

How we all feel after today…

What do you mean the fortune isn’t real?

Just received an email from a wealthy Nigerian Prince.
He told me that he doesn’t have any fortune to share with me at the moment but he would appreciate if I could let him know before May 25th if I wish to continue receiving emails….#GDPR

— Paul Binning (@StarrdLtd) May 8, 2018

How the week up to GDPR felt…

GDPR message in a bottle…

Finds deserted island a message in a bottle washes onto the beach *opens bottle* We’ve updated our Privacy Policy — Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) May 24, 2018

Some of us were wishing we could time travel…

Jam out to the GDPR playlist (listen to it here via Spotify)

Best thing to come out of #GDPRday so far.#GDPR pic.twitter.com/wWMhPlD2Us

— Jason Parsons (@JasonLeeParsons) May 25, 2018

Thankfully, it’s also National Wine Day in the United States:

Rage Against the Machine, but not against GDPR:

Even Rage Against The Machine has to abide by GDPR. pic.twitter.com/XY7qdToo46 — Gareth Milner (@mrgarethm) May 23, 2018

GDPR is one with the force, and the force is one with GDPR:

Oh, and by the way, we’ve made some updates to our privacy policy. If you’d like to continue receiving funny memes from LeadMD…

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