Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe

Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by simion314 on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:51AM (#16520670)

But is in this case an EU institution selecting FB or a civil rights organization selecting the biggest offender? If the citizens complain about FB and going after justice why are you asking the citizens to find first other smaller and non US company that maybe did much less damage and start with them. Citizens should have the right to demand justice for illegal behavior of US company that makes business in EU without having the other camp calling protectionism.

It is like the Microsoft anti competition case would not take place until we find some small non US OS vendor to punish first so the Americans won't get upset.

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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by seanmcdirmid on Monday March 05, 2018 @10:14AM (#16521539)

If the law is no cookies or no tracking, then they can literally pick a random internet company within their bidders whose offending. In practice, such broad laws can only be selectively enforced.

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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by s73v3r_ on Monday March 05, 2018 @12:35PM (#16522699)

And how many people are actually going to pay attention to that? Further, how is that not any different than the "selective enforcement" that you claim is happening against FB?

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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by simion314 on Monday March 05, 2018 @12:11PM (#16522493)

>they can literally pick a random internet company In this case they are the citizens, the citizens would not pcik at random but the company that affects them.

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