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by stef25 2976 days ago
If it's anything like the cookie consent, it will just be an annoyance and nobody will be anything wiser. The amount of "no clue what this is" among non technical people I know is 100%. But the EU pats itself on the back cause they're tackling privacy issues. It's a joke.
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kuschku 2976 days ago
The GDPR requires users to be able to say no, and not lose any functionality except that which absolutely requires this data.

If I refuse tracking for ads, then a newspaper can’t refuse me access to their articles.

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CryptoPunk 2975 days ago
>>If I refuse tracking for ads, then a newspaper can’t refuse me access to their articles.

This arbitrarily limits the range of businesses that can exist. For the sake of people who value their privacy having nothing denied to them, it reduces the services available to everyone.

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merb 2975 days ago
> If I refuse tracking for ads, then a newspaper can’t refuse me access to their articles.

they can. a business does not even need to do business with you. it's not a right that a business needs to service you. and btw. this is german law.

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cyphar 2975 days ago
The rules involve "degradation of service", which is related to existing customers not new ones. So if you have a newspaper subscription and you request that they no longer use your data for a purpose, they cannot cancel your subscription or degrade your service (unless it is impossible to provide a service without said data).
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merb 2975 days ago
they can cancel your subscription. because they can always say it is impossible to provide service without said data.

heck they can even rely on other laws to cancel your service any time they want.

in the next years GDPR will change nearly nothing. except that it will kill some smaller businesses.

GDPR is not strongly enforceable, if people think they have a right to something they still need to go to court.

the only thing which might change is that it will be easier to delete accounts and data (which is a good thing).

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hansen 2976 days ago
> The GDPR requires users to be able to say no

Even better, it requires the use to say “yes”.

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hansen 2976 days ago
> If it's anything like the cookie consent,

It won’t. It will just replace the common “no one reads but clicks” TOS. And the user can change her mind anytime she wants.

> The amount of "no clue what this is" among non technical people I know is 100%.

If you can’t explain a non engineer or scientist how personal is collected and used it’s probably not a bad idea to outlaw this practice.

> But the EU pats itself on the back cause they're tackling privacy issues. It's a joke.

It’s certainly not enough but a step in the right direction.

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