Great news for online privacy!

  • RejZoR
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    867 days ago

    I thought all the cookie popups that don’t have Allow all, Deny all and Customize options were all illegal by default. So many of them have huge ALLOW ALL and denying is hidden in submenu where you need to uncheck 50 entires one by ond. Why it took them so damn long?

    Also for 700+ companies to fester on anyone’s browsing data is just vomit inducing and should be illegal.

  • layzerjeyt
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    396 days ago

    ctrl + f guillotine

    ctrl + f prison

    ctrl + f jail

    ctrl + f sentence

    ctrl + f fine

    not illegal enough

  • @af0da3rt@lemmy.world
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    176 days ago

    This ruling does nearly nothing for privacy. All it does is confirm that the data captured by the framework (TCF) behind cookie banners (still legal) is personal data and thus subject to GDPR.

    • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      For seven years, the tracking industry has used the TCF as a legal cover for Real-Time Bidding (RTB), the vast advertising auction system that operates behind the scenes on websites and apps. RTB tracks what Internet users look at and where they go in the real world. It then continuously broadcasts this data to a host of companies, enabling them to keep dossiers on every Internet user.[2] Because there is no security in the RTB system it is impossible to know what then happens to the data. As a result, it is also impossible to provide the necessary information that must accompany a consent request.[3]

      In short, RTB makes it impossible for the user to know where his data goes, which is a requirement for consent.

    • @Paddy66@lemmy.mlOP
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      46 days ago

      Oh… I thought it meant that those cookie banners were ‘false consent’ and therefore render the data collected to be illegal?

      Please provide more info - I would like to learn more about this subject!