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You enter a coffee shop. Before you can do anything, the owner takes a photo of you, and grabs your hand to take your finger print. He quickly writes down the d

You enter a coffee shop. Before you can do anything, the owner takes a photo of you, and grabs your hand to take your finger print. He quickly writes down the date, time and what clothes you are wearing. He gives you a smile as he starts his speech. "Before we continue, we at Coffee City want you to know we deeply value your privacy. We need your permission to store your information, improve your coffee experience, personalize your coffee suggestions and share it with our partners. Do you consent?" You don't fucking value my privacy. I get some serious doublespeak vibes. If you valued my privacy you'd leave me the fuck alone and stop saving information about me. IMO GDPR doesn't go far enough. Even these popups are wasting my valuable time and invade my privacy due to the ease it is to accidentally consent to some stupid bullshit while navigating the 20 windows needed to reject all consent. We should outlaw even asking for consent to store personal information for any user that didn't log into your site. If I do not have an account with you, I'm not your user, we don't have an extended relationship and you have no business storing information about me.

winchling 8y ago
The next time you stroll in he'll ask for your cellphone number. For security purposes. If you don't want to provide it now you'll have to tell him that you'll do so another time.
- mattkevan 8y ago
  As you start drinking your coffee, a little shutter slides shut across the lid of your coffee cup. It'll only open if you create an account, log in and agree to every sip you take being recorded and measured. Sure, it's possible to prise the lid off manually or use a special shutter-blocker, but you often end up with a broken cup. And coffee shop owners call you a thief and find ways to thwart your blocker.
  - Casseres 8y ago
    Any Black Mirror episode writers here?
JustSomeNobody 8y ago
But, see, this falls apart because at a coffee shop, you're actually buying something. Most services people use (FB, GMail, etc), are "free"[0]. [0] Your personal data is a currency, spend wisely.
cr1895 8y ago
>while navigating the 20 windows needed to reject all consent. I think that actually is a violation of GDPR, not that it's any less common to encounter.

winchling 8y ago

The next time you stroll in he'll ask for your cellphone number. For security purposes. If you don't want to provide it now you'll have to tell him that you'll do so another time.

mattkevan 8y ago
As you start drinking your coffee, a little shutter slides shut across the lid of your coffee cup. It'll only open if you create an account, log in and agree to every sip you take being recorded and measured. Sure, it's possible to prise the lid off manually or use a special shutter-blocker, but you often end up with a broken cup. And coffee shop owners call you a thief and find ways to thwart your blocker.
- Casseres 8y ago
  Any Black Mirror episode writers here?

JustSomeNobody 8y ago

But, see, this falls apart because at a coffee shop, you're actually buying something. Most services people use (FB, GMail, etc), are "free"[0]. [0] Your personal data is a currency, spend wisely.

cr1895 8y ago

>while navigating the 20 windows needed to reject all consent. I think that actually is a violation of GDPR, not that it's any less common to encounter.