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I still struggle to see how cookies set for spiceworks.com or linkedin.com are for "technical" purposes of just serving a landing page.

hdudjdididbbfk 6y ago
“We need these super high tech cookiemotrons to provide you with the best user experience possible. We consider it a technical necessity to meet your need to have your data harvested. You should be thanking us. We would explain further, but you’re too stupid. What are you gonna do? Have us testify before technologically illiterate politicians and fine us 1% of what we pay our CEO?.”
- lol768 6y ago
  > Have us testify before technologically illiterate politicians and fine us 1% of what we pay our CEO? Slack operates in the EU and has paying customers in the EU. It also likes to take advantage of anti-competition regulations when convenient: https://slack.com/intl/en-in/blog/news/slack-files-eu-competition-complaint-against-microsoft https://slack.com/intl/en-in/blog/news/slack-files-eu-compet... CEO pay seemed to be $356,952 at time of Slack's IPO. Maximum fine under GDPR is the greater of 4% annual turnover and $23M. Slack's turnover is too small, which means the maximum fine is $23M, nearly 700% of CEO's basic compensation. Regulations here have teeth; it's not the United States - and it's a good thing for society that they do.
  - iamacyborg 6y ago
    > Regulations here have teeth; it's not the United States - and it's a good thing for society that they do. sadly, the regulators are yet to show that the GDPR has any teeth. Most recently, the ICO gave British Airways and Marriott significant reductions on fines they raised last year.
    - lol768 6y ago
      £20M and £18.4M are still reasonably sizeable amounts - and given the pandemic has likely impacted BA & Marriott's profits substantially already, I think some sort of adjustment was likely the fair thing to do. H&M have been fined £32M. This wasn't hugely far off the 4% annual turnover cap. Compared to the previous Data Protection Act limits, these fines are definitely significant.
  - whimsicalism 6y ago
    > Regulations here have teeth Citing the maximum possible fine here does essentially nothing to convince me of that fact.
    - lol768 6y ago
      What're you implying? That non-trivial amounts are never actually fined? TIM were fined 2780% of the CEO's base salary recently.

hdudjdididbbfk 6y ago

“We need these super high tech cookiemotrons to provide you with the best user experience possible. We consider it a technical necessity to meet your need to have your data harvested. You should be thanking us. We would explain further, but you’re too stupid. What are you gonna do? Have us testify before technologically illiterate politicians and fine us 1% of what we pay our CEO?.”

lol768 6y ago
> Have us testify before technologically illiterate politicians and fine us 1% of what we pay our CEO? Slack operates in the EU and has paying customers in the EU. It also likes to take advantage of anti-competition regulations when convenient: https://slack.com/intl/en-in/blog/news/slack-files-eu-competition-complaint-against-microsoft https://slack.com/intl/en-in/blog/news/slack-files-eu-compet... CEO pay seemed to be $356,952 at time of Slack's IPO. Maximum fine under GDPR is the greater of 4% annual turnover and $23M. Slack's turnover is too small, which means the maximum fine is $23M, nearly 700% of CEO's basic compensation. Regulations here have teeth; it's not the United States - and it's a good thing for society that they do.
- iamacyborg 6y ago
  > Regulations here have teeth; it's not the United States - and it's a good thing for society that they do. sadly, the regulators are yet to show that the GDPR has any teeth. Most recently, the ICO gave British Airways and Marriott significant reductions on fines they raised last year.
  - lol768 6y ago
    £20M and £18.4M are still reasonably sizeable amounts - and given the pandemic has likely impacted BA & Marriott's profits substantially already, I think some sort of adjustment was likely the fair thing to do. H&M have been fined £32M. This wasn't hugely far off the 4% annual turnover cap. Compared to the previous Data Protection Act limits, these fines are definitely significant.
- whimsicalism 6y ago
  > Regulations here have teeth Citing the maximum possible fine here does essentially nothing to convince me of that fact.
  - lol768 6y ago
    What're you implying? That non-trivial amounts are never actually fined? TIM were fined 2780% of the CEO's base salary recently.