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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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