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Can we say this article show everything that's wrong with Tech in interpreting legislation? > All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its legis
by raverbashing 2y ago
Can we say this article show everything that's wrong with Tech in interpreting legislation?
> All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its legislative failures
Kind of. EU legislative issues notwithstanding, a lot of this rests in the implementation, interpretation and past decisions.
Again, GDPR is not about "cookie popups". A small part of it is about cookie popups. Most cookie popups are not even compliant with the darn thing
Visiting a website nowadays is the equivalent into going into a store and being x-rayed, photographed and your ID copied. What are your suggestions to prevent this?
Now, I do think the criticism in how things are working is totally valid. Also for over regulation.
And then we ask the tech people how should that work, and they would suggest an in-browser solution to deny cookies, which is fine but was lobbied down by the adtech industry (curiously the same people that likes to show non-compliant popups). You can still use extensions. I use consent-o-matic
- KingOfCoders 2y ago"x-rayed, photographed and your ID copied." And then the data sold to the highest bidder to make a profit.