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Isn't this, like, the cornerstone of bad reasoning; acting/enforcing on a few one-offs?
by Romanulus 9y ago
Isn't this, like, the cornerstone of bad reasoning; acting/enforcing on a few one-offs?
- calcifer 9y agoWhat do you mean one-offs? Pretty much every company with an engineer on staff is collecting as much data as they can with zero regard to the user's expectations of privacy. The regulation exists to stop an epidemic, not to act on a few one-offs.
- freeone3000 9y agoIf the user wanted privacy, they wouldn't be giving data to our services. It's a bit ridiculous to punish us for keeping what users freely give us.
- SahAssar 9y agoIt's not given freely unless consent is given, which in most cases it isn't.
- freeone3000 9y agoYou're referring to express consent. However, the user is granting implied consent - they're the ones visiting our website, they're the ones requesting our images and executing our javascript, and they're the ones filling out our forms. We're not forcing them to do any of these things.
- sacheendra 9y agoExtreme example: you are standing in the way of my car.
- paulddraper 9y agoExtremer example: you jumped in front of of my car.
- musage 9y agoAnd then you speed up instead of even trying to brake, end up convicted for man slaughter, and talk about utterly insane laws nobody could possibly comprehend.
- zaarn 9y agoUnder the GDPR explicit conset is required, implicit consent is no longer sufficient. End of story. As the operator of the website it becomes your duty to properly inform the user of what you are doing with their data and why.
- ionised 9y agoImplied consent is not consent.
- tatersolid 9y agoIt certainly is, and any reasonable person would agree. If you send me an email, am I allowed to keep your email address in my mail logs, archives, and inbox? Hell yeah I am, you gave me implied consent to do that by sending me email. Am I allowed to spam the email address you gave me? Of course not. But I can keep it. Placing an automatic and extreme burden on the recipient of a communication like a website visit or email, which is exactly what the GPDR does, is just plain bananas.
- _o_ 9y agoHere is your hero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium
- musage 9y agoHypocrites always wanna play innocent Always want to take it to the full out extent Always want to make it seem like good intent Never want to face it when it time for punishment
- chopin 9y agoJust switch on developer mode in the browser and watch the network activity while visiting an arbitrary site. I don't think it's a few one-offs. The few sites who don't do malicious tracking (thanks HN) are one-offs.