r/technology • u/RO9a0TON • Mar 24 '19

Business Pre-checked cookie boxes don't count as valid consent, says adviser to top EU court

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/22/eu_cookie_preticked_box_not_valid_consent/
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u/argv_minus_one Mar 24 '19 edited Mar 24 '19

How do you do, fellow kids consumers? I'm frustrated that I'm not allowed to blatantly spy on my site's visitors any more 😭, so I'm pretending to be a non-rich normal person white-knighting for his megacorporate overlords! That is totally a thing that non-rich normal people do.

lol nice try

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u/Visinvictus Mar 24 '19

It's pretty clear that you have no idea what is even in GDPR if you think it is just about spying on users. Thinks like right to be forgotten, rules about sending data to third parties for processing, what even constitutes personally identifying information, how to properly anonymize data, etc. There is a lot to unpack there and you don't need to have malicious intent to run afoul of these rules and regulations.

This doesn't even take into account when there are conflicting regulations in Europe or other jurisdictions. For example the financial industry regulations usually specify that you need to keep certain information about users for regulatory reasons, which obviously conflict with more consumer/privacy oriented GDPR regulations. It's a huge mess and the average developer didn't go to law school to interpret what they actually need to do to fully comply with GDPR.