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Websites need cookie notices, but apps can track your full web usage (albeit within the in-app browser) without any such notice or opt in? Doesn't seem like thi
by dazbradbury 4y ago
Websites need cookie notices, but apps can track your full web usage (albeit within the in-app browser) without any such notice or opt in? Doesn't seem like this would be legal. Anyone know how this could be compliant in the EU?
It's also frustrating that on an android device you can't simply disable in-app browsers globally.
- Nextgrid 4y agoGDPR enforcement is significantly lacking. There's basically zero ways this is compliant unless it's opt-in (but who in their right mind would opt-in?) but the regulators aren't interested in standing up to these nasty companies.
- flipbrad 4y agoThe EU+UK e-privacy "cookie" rule applies to apps in the same way as anything else that's sending/receiving data over a public network (e.g. the Internet): all storage of information to, or reading of information from, the end-user device requires their free, informed and specific consent, unless it's a technical necessity for the service they requested, or certain limited (technical) purposes like load balancing. How strictly this is enforced by regulators has waxed and waned over time and from one country to another. Civil litigants, however, have had pretty good results in the courts (or just threatening litigation) - e.g. the Lloyd and Vidal-Hall cases against Google in the UK
- fleddr 4y agoI'm not familiar with the Instagram signup flow but it may very well be that the user did opt-in at one point. The opt-in would of course only be valid if there's also a clear "reject" option.