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Thing is if everything puts up a big notice "YOU MUST AGREE TO BE TRACKED AND SOLD TO USE OUR SERVICE" then people will just click that.
by gcp 8y ago
Thing is if everything puts up a big notice "YOU MUST AGREE TO BE TRACKED AND SOLD TO USE OUR SERVICE" then people will just click that.
- e12e 8y agoThere's provisions to make sure mandatory tracking, profiling is explicitly opt-in, and that there's a real alternative. That might be a fee (eg Gmail could let you pay x/month to disable all targeted ads - or rather; they might have an opt-in gratis/free service that had ads/tracking).
- icebraining 8y agoI don't think that's true; they can offer a paid version or a free version, but they can't offer a version "paid with tracking", even if there's an alternative.
- krageon 8y agoThat is coercive, and therefore does not comply (nor does it actually mean consent).
- dingaling 8y ago> then people will just click that. I'm not certain of that. I think that GDPR's biggest effect, even before going live, was to raise awareness of what companies do with their data. My wife is not particularly technical but has received four e-mails from a hobby magazine pleading with her, increasingly desperately, to opt-in to marketing. That has caused her to wonder why they're so desperate. Why is her information so valuable to them? What do they do with it? So she has decided not to renew her subscription.
- lagadu 8y agoYou can't withhold service based on accepting non-essential data collection without offering alternatives, that falls under coercion and is a direct violation of the regulation. Should you ever see that report them immediately (something I already did once today).
- gcp 8y agoThank you, I did not know this.