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Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance? (mastodon.ar.al)

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Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?

Turns out they’re illegal.

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

#TCF #consent #data #privacy #EU #GDPR #BigTech #maliciousCompliance #SiliconValley #adtech #technoFascism

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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It's great to see it being actively called out in a court of law. How will this be enforced? Companies will not comply unless compelled to do so.

It would be great if part of the requirements on these companies is that they're already collected databases (and any/all backups) had to be 100% wiped.

Along with that, a respected tech outlet should detail how the average person can install add-ons (Ghostery, uBlock Origin, etc) to their browser to help negate this sort of thing from happening again.

Then offer a more advanced method (ie. PiHole with suggested block lists) for those more savvy.