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In this case, is github uncompliant now? They say they're not doing third-party tracking but the blog post seems to hint that they're doing their own tracking.
by chubs 6y ago
In this case, is github uncompliant now? They say they're not doing third-party tracking but the blog post seems to hint that they're doing their own tracking.
- rlpb 6y agoThat depends on what personal data they're collecting and for what purpose, in the case that a person hasn't explicitly opted-in by giving consent freely. I don't think it's possible for us to figure those details out exhaustively merely by observation from the outside.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoYes, and it's not like the EU is going to send surprise inspections to go dig into Microsoft's code and databases to check whether they are violating this or not?
- fwip 6y agoSure, but it's also likely that Microsoft's lawyers allowed the Github team to do this if they didn't think that Github was still in compliance.
- rlpb 6y agoThey don't send surprise inspections to your house to check if you're engaging in criminal activity, either. My point is that you're moving the goalposts. Law enforcement generally always requires a complaint that justifies an investigation, and people and organisations get away with breaking the law all the time. However that has nothing to do with whether or not GitHub put their website behind a "consent" wall, or whether or not they're doing in-house as opposed to contracted-out analytics.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoI'm not moving the goalposts. Aren't you aware that some businesses get regular inspections, which do not require any complaints?