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Legally I haven't given affirmative permission so they're not allowed to track me. The same if I just ignored the cookie banners (which is what I did... until 2

by gpm 6y ago

Legally I haven't given affirmative permission so they're not allowed to track me. The same if I just ignored the cookie banners (which is what I did... until 2 hours ago when I saw this post). Practically I assume most of the sites are breaking the law, because that's how I expect webdev's to think and because most of the cookie banners aren't nearly up to spec to satisfy the law so I assume they aren't being that careful.

lmkg 6y ago
The Irish data privacy regulator recently did a sweep of 38 Irish websites, reviewing for cookie compliance. Two-thirds of websites were found to be relying on "implied consent" and 37 were found to set unnecessary cookies on landing before consent was given. Overall only 3 websites were rated as "substantially compliant." Further reading: https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/publications/report-dpc-use-cookies-and-other-tracking-technologies https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/publications/rep...
- scrollaway 6y ago
  Every site involved will say compliance is too difficult or whatever. What I wonder is, if you're not going to bother being properly compliant, why bother adding a GDPR banner at all?
  - FearNotDaniel 6y ago
    Because your boss has a boss who has a legal adviser who tells him they have to have the appearance of meeting the requirements of the law/regulators. Compliance theatre. They all know it's smoke and mirrors but it ticks a box in someone's board meeting agenda.
  - Zobat 6y ago
    Because there's a huge difference between being "blatantly non-compliant" vs "properly compliant".
  - epanchin 6y ago
    If GDPR starts to be enforced, they’ll go after the low hanging fruit first. You don’t need to be compliant, just more compliant than the worst.
  - Cthulhu_ 6y ago
    I suspect most sites will get a warning first. I have a website myself with Google Analytics and I've never added a banner myself, I'll wait for the warning first, and I expect my users to have blockers installed if they're privacy-conscious.

by gpm 6y ago

lmkg 6y ago

The Irish data privacy regulator recently did a sweep of 38 Irish websites, reviewing for cookie compliance. Two-thirds of websites were found to be relying on "implied consent" and 37 were found to set unnecessary cookies on landing before consent was given. Overall only 3 websites were rated as "substantially compliant." Further reading: https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/publications/report-dpc-use-cookies-and-other-tracking-technologies https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/publications/rep...

scrollaway 6y ago
Every site involved will say compliance is too difficult or whatever. What I wonder is, if you're not going to bother being properly compliant, why bother adding a GDPR banner at all?
- FearNotDaniel 6y ago
  Because your boss has a boss who has a legal adviser who tells him they have to have the appearance of meeting the requirements of the law/regulators. Compliance theatre. They all know it's smoke and mirrors but it ticks a box in someone's board meeting agenda.
- Zobat 6y ago
  Because there's a huge difference between being "blatantly non-compliant" vs "properly compliant".
- epanchin 6y ago
  If GDPR starts to be enforced, they’ll go after the low hanging fruit first. You don’t need to be compliant, just more compliant than the worst.
- Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  I suspect most sites will get a warning first. I have a website myself with Google Analytics and I've never added a banner myself, I'll wait for the warning first, and I expect my users to have blockers installed if they're privacy-conscious.