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The Gist: A non-profit developed a cralwer which can pick up misleading (or non-working) cookie-consent banners. > with a plan to file up to 10,000 complaints
by woodpanel 5y ago
The Gist: A non-profit developed a cralwer which can pick up misleading (or non-working) cookie-consent banners.
> with a plan to file up to 10,000 complaints against offenders over the course of this year
> Today it’s announcing the first batch of 560 complaints, large and small
> noyb is even giving offenders a warning first — and a full month to clean up their ways
In general I'm not a fan of vigilante law enforcers, specifically if they attach an invoice to their warnings.
I hope noyb won't and that the small in large and small doesn't mean people will loose their jobs. If that's the case then god-speed.
If not I fear a lot of warned sites are going to be run by barely profitable family-run businesses, who barely managed to have a consent-banner at all and whose sites are barely visted anyways (thus causing next to little harm).
- Majestic121 5y agoIt's pretty easy for family run business to respect the law : don't track your customers. No need for any banner if you only use cookies for legitimate interest.
- hnaccount_rng 5y agoThey won't. > Anders als bei "Abmahnungen" die gerade in Deutschland problematische Ausmaße angenommen haben, fallen für die betroffenen Unternehmen dabei keinerlei Kosten an, da das Projekt durch Spenden der rund 4.000 Fördermitglieder von noyb finanziert wird. https://noyb.eu/de/noyb-setzt-dem-cookie-banner-wahnsinn-ein-ende https://noyb.eu/de/noyb-setzt-dem-cookie-banner-wahnsinn-ein...
- thargor 5y agoSimplified Translation: they don't charge the corporations anything. Noyb is financed by donations.
- thargor 5y agonoyb are not "vigilante law enforcers". Law enforcement is police and courts. Noyb notifies corporations of their GDPR violations. Only if they do not comply they will notify authorities/sue.
- Kbelicius 5y ago> In general I'm not a fan of vigilante law enforcers Nobody here is enforcing the law. noyb is actually doing a favor to all those small business by informing them that they are in fact breaking the law. Maybe some of them didn't even know it. noyb then gives them ample time to fix the issue and if they don't they get reported to the relevant agencies which then do the law enforcement. It's all quite simple that I am surprised that anybody would call noyb vigilante law enforcers.