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That's very untrue. In fact, any site which makes you do that is _violating_ the GDPR - you aren't allowed to have those checkboxes be opt-out. Besides, that's
by annabellish 8y ago
That's very untrue. In fact, any site which makes you do that is _violating_ the GDPR - you aren't allowed to have those checkboxes be opt-out.
Besides, that's only one small part of the GDPR, which is much closer to the Data Protection Act modernised for 2018's awful internet than anything else. We did this to ourselves by proving we can't be trusted to self-regulate.
- Rjevski 8y agoI think his main point is that for now GDPR is just as inefficient as the cookie "law" it replaced, which I have to agree with - the only thing that will make these regulations useful is enforcement - until that happens companies will just ignore it (as we can already see with plenty of non-GDPR-compliant sites).
- mrighele 8y agoI agree, but until now I have seen very few websites doing GDPR properly (probably because it would go against one of their main ways to make money). The best implementation that I found to date, is on GitLab's website [1]. [1] https://about.gitlab.com/ https://about.gitlab.com/
- swebs 8y agoWikia is also good with it, though it's not too clear that "Reject advertising cookies" is a button. http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Metroid_Wiki http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Metroid_Wiki
- Grue3 8y agoConsidering almost every big website makes me do that, and they presumably have a team of lawyers on payroll, I'd rather take their opinion on the matter (no offense). If million checkboxes thing violated GDPR, you'd think someone would be suing them already by now.
- Rjevski 8y agoThe problem with GDPR is that you can't sue over it directly, you can only report them to your jurisdiction's privacy watchdog (CNIL in France, ICO in the UK, etc), and if the privacy watchdog sucks or doesn't care then tough luck.