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Man am I naive. I read the title as the EU wanting to provide a way to block web sites that do things like track consumers.
by choward 9y ago
Man am I naive. I read the title as the EU wanting to provide a way to block web sites that do things like track consumers.
- yorwba 9y agoI don't think that use is specifically excluded.
- petre 9y agoYou can block those at your router anyway, no need for legislation that does it "for us" without judicial oversight. Or have the domains blacklisted and redirected to localhost by your DNS cache. We could build public DNS blocking caches just like RBLs used for mail to make this even easier.
- jopsen 9y agoNo, it looks more to do with blocking scamming sites. "where no other effective means are available", hence, sites with representation in the EU, or owners who can be extradited to the EU, doesn't seem to be at risk.
- zaarn 9y agoTechnically that could be a fallout. With the upcoming ePrivacy/GDPR in the EU, if you as a consumer sent a DNT header or disagree with being tracked, you can notify anyone doing so and they are under EU law required to delete your data and/or stop tracking you. If they don't... well the nearest consumer protection office will be interested and they'll probably then follow up with blocking the website EU wide. So in conclusion; yes this can be used against anyone who tracks you on the internet against your will since the EU law will make that illegal in the future and this law is a broadside against anyone trying to ignore EU law.