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> Agreed. The way the EU has handled this is naive at best. The EU could have started fining everybody and unleash hell at unseen levels. They would have ended

by mmarq 5y ago

> Agreed. The way the EU has handled this is naive at best. The EU could have started fining everybody and unleash hell at unseen levels. They would have ended up bankrupting companies and people who added google analytics or AdWords to their site in good faith, without understanding the privacy implications. So the regulators initially notified companies and gave them time to implement whatever change they were required to. To this day, if they aren’t satisfied with the changes, they contact the company again, they don’t just issue fines. This happened to a company I used to work for, that initially just added a cookie banner, then was asked to make the “deny all” and “accept all” buttons of equal size and with equal accessibility.

PontifexMinimus 5y ago
> They would have ended up bankrupting companies and people who added google analytics or AdWords to their site in good faith, People who run websites really should know what they're doing, at least in broad strokes. > without understanding the privacy implications. Regarding Adwords, maybe the EU could've just mandated Google to serve ads based only on the web page and not on the visitor? That would've allowed websites to continue with minimal disruption. Google's profits might be a few billion less, but frankly I'd count that as a plus.
- mmarq 5y ago
  > People who run websites really should know what they're doing, at least in broad strokes. You can't just change a law and start issuing fines as if everybody was a criminal. You need to allow time for people to adapt, especially the guy who set up his personal site, installed Google Analytics because everybody used to do that, and forgot about it. > Regarding Adwords, maybe the EU could've just mandated Google to serve ads based only on the web page and not on the visitor? That would've allowed websites to continue with minimal disruption. That would be a ban of targeted ads, which I'm all for, but it's not what GDPR is about.

by mmarq 5y ago

PontifexMinimus 5y ago

> They would have ended up bankrupting companies and people who added google analytics or AdWords to their site in good faith, People who run websites really should know what they're doing, at least in broad strokes. > without understanding the privacy implications. Regarding Adwords, maybe the EU could've just mandated Google to serve ads based only on the web page and not on the visitor? That would've allowed websites to continue with minimal disruption. Google's profits might be a few billion less, but frankly I'd count that as a plus.

mmarq 5y ago
> People who run websites really should know what they're doing, at least in broad strokes. You can't just change a law and start issuing fines as if everybody was a criminal. You need to allow time for people to adapt, especially the guy who set up his personal site, installed Google Analytics because everybody used to do that, and forgot about it. > Regarding Adwords, maybe the EU could've just mandated Google to serve ads based only on the web page and not on the visitor? That would've allowed websites to continue with minimal disruption. That would be a ban of targeted ads, which I'm all for, but it's not what GDPR is about.