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Anybody wants to shed some light what exactly was illegal at the consent popups? I think Google, Microsoft and others use all different/branded popups, so I wou
by littlecranky67 5y ago
Anybody wants to shed some light what exactly was illegal at the consent popups? I think Google, Microsoft and others use all different/branded popups, so I would want to know what the problem is there.
- Nextgrid 5y agoFrom a UI point of view, the failures I typically see is that agreeing to everything is easy but declining is difficult despite both options needing to be equally prominent. From a technical point of view, the tracking scripts are often loaded to begin with (where your IP address & browser fingerprint is already leaked) and declining tracking merely "asks them nicely" with no guarantee they'll obey the signal or whether the already-collected data (from just loading the script) will be deleted.
- Macha 5y agoAlso the legitimate interest abuse was also ruled against. Many of these claim legitimate interest so they have a second set of options you need to untick or click "object" to individually. This isn't valid consent as not giving consent is harder than giving it, and per the ruling isn't valid legitimate interest as the companies did not conduct an adequate balancing of the user's interests vs the businesses and when the DPAs did so they did not find the company's interest outweighed the user's privacy interests.